A lost language rediscovered?

This report from the Independent newspaper examines recent discoveries at a dig at the Assyrian imperial governor's palace at Tushan (south-east Turkey) which seem to be evidence of a previously unknown language, probably spoken by a people from the Zagros Mountains of Iran

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A detailed analysis of the discovery has been published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies Vol.71 (1) 2012 ("Evidence for a peripheral language in a neo-Assyrian tablet from the governor's palace in Tushan" John MacGinnis)
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