Hurrian is a conventional name for the language of the
Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern
Mesopotamia around
2300 BC and had mostly vanished by
1000 BC. Hurrian was the language of the
Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, and was likely spoken at least initially in Hurrian settlements in
Syria. It is generally believed that the speakers of this language originally came from the
Armenian Highlands and spread over southeast Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC.