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=== Hurrian and Urartian cuneiform === The [[Hurrian language#Writing system|Hurrian language]] (attested 2300β1000 BC) and [[Urartian language#Cuneiform|Urartian language]] (attested in the 9thβ6th centuries BC) were also written in adapted versions of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform. Although the two languages are related, their writing systems seem to have been developed separately. For Hurrian, there were even different systems in different polities (in [[Mitanni]], in [[Mari, Syria|Mari]], in the Hittite Empire). The Hurrian orthographies were generally characterised by more extensive use of syllabograms and more limited use of logograms than Akkadian. Urartian, in comparison, retained a more significant role for logograms.<ref name=":2" />
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