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Amorite is an early Northwest Semitic language, spoken by the Amorite tribes prominent in ancient Near Eastern history. It is known exclusively from non-Akkadian proper names recorded by Akkadian scribes during periods of Amorite rule in Babylonia (end of the 3rd and beginning of the 2nd millennium), notably from Mari, and to a lesser extent Alalakh, Tell Harmal, and Khafajah. Occasionally such names are also found in early Egyptian texts; and one place-name — "Sənīr" (שְׂנִיר) for Mount Hermon — is known from the Bible (Deut. 3:9). Notable characteristics include: * The usual Northwest Semitic imperfective-perfective distinction is found — e.g. ''Yantin-Dagan'', 'Dagon gives' (''ntn''); ''Raṣa-Dagan'', 'Dagon was pleased' (rṣy). It included a 3rd-person suffix -''a'' (unlike Akkadian or Hebrew), and an imperfect vowel -''a''-, as in Arabic rather than the Hebrew and Aramaic -''i''-. * There was a verb form with a geminate second consonant — e.g. ''Yabanni-Il'', 'God creates' (root ''bny''). * In several cases where Akkadian has ''š'', Amorite, like Hebrew and Arabic, has ''h'', thus ''hu'' 'his', -''haa'' 'her', causative ''h-'' or ''ʼ''- (I. Gelb 1958). * The 1st-person perfect is in -''ti'' (singular), -''nu'' (plural), as in the Canaanite languages. ==Sources== *D. Cohen, ''Les langues chamito-semitiques'', CNRS: Paris 1985. *I. Gelb, "La lingua degli amoriti", ''Academia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti'' 1958, no. 8, 13, pp. 143–163. *H. B. Huffmon. ''Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts. A Structural and Lexical Study'', Baltimore 1965. *Remo Mugnaioni. "Notes pour servir d’approche à l’amorrite" Travaux 16 – ''La sémitologie aujourd’hui'', Cercle de Linguistique d’Aix-en-Provence, Centre des sciences du language, Aix-en-Provence 2000, p. 57-65. *M. P. Streck, Das amurritische Onomastikon der altbabylonischen Zeit. Band 1: Die Amurriter, Die onomastische Forschung, Orthographie und Phonologie, Nominalmorphologie. Alter Orient und Altes Testament Band 271/1, Münster 2000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amorite language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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