Who were they and what happened with them

>literally everyone in the entire region is semitic
>they somehow arent
this

speakers of a language isolate
hittites weren't semites either

They didn't speak a semitic language.

Neither were Hatti, Mittani or Elamites, for that matter.

The Egyptians weren't Semitic either

Doesnt make them not semites in ethnicity. they were the precursor to what we now know as semites.
Mittani and Egyptians were definately semitic.
Hatti, Elamites and hittites came from the edges of the region

Retard

Elamites, Hurrians and Hittites were nor semitic either

Why are retards like you allowed to exist?

according to your logic the hittites were turkish

Insufficient numbers of tigers.

The middle east was full of language isolates and from other families at the time. The eternal semite just expanded and deleted them

Sumerian
Hatti
Gutian
Cassite
Elamite (elamo-dravidian?)
Hurrite
Hittite (Indoeuropean)
Banana language / proto euphratean
Egyptian (afroasiatic)
Etc

Also Luwian and Palaic belonging to The Anatolian branch of Indieuropean

Why do there have to be so many fucktards on Veeky Forums?

Semites are a linguistic group

>Mittani were semitic
End yourself. They were Indo-Europeans.

Because Veeky Forums is on Veeky Forums.

>basques and Finns are indo European because they live in Europe

I'm thinking they originally came from a region that later got submerged by water, hence all the flood myths (that were later copied and altered by Jews, Akkadians, Babylonians and others). Persian Gulf used to be a patch of land before getting flooded around 6000 BC, and the Sumerians themselves regarded a place called Dilmun somewhere in the Persian Gulf as their place of origin. They also viewed as a beautiful idyllic place with gardens that had to be abandoned because of the deluge - which is probably where the Jewish myth of the Garden of Eden comes from. The remnants of Dilmun were supposed to be located in the are of modern Bahrain island, which is probably all that was left after the area got flooded.
Obviously, Sumerians spoke a language isolate but the Persian Gulf area probably contained a population of speakers of a larger language meta-group, which Sumerian language ultimately descended from as the sole survivor.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's ruins of some ancient, pre-Sumerian civilization buried under the Gulf, archaeologists should do more extensive research in that area.

there was no "flood" in 6000BC. the persian gulf gradually grew over time

>gradually grew
Through flooding.

gradual flooding over thousands of years isn't going to be sudden enough for a flood myth to be based on it. there were very likely humans living in areas that became flooded that had to evacuate, but it hardly would have left an impression on them bigger than any other ecological changes and none of them would have been killed by an ocean creeping forward at a pace too slow for anyone to notice

>That isn't necessarily proof that they were geneticially non-semitic,
Gas yourself.

Actually there is, it wasn't one gigantic flood, but a series of smaller floods that would appear downright cataclysmic to people in the antiquity.

>series of smaller floods
which isn't what happened. this was gradual flooding that would be near impossible for anyone at the time to notice

>an ocean creeping forward at a pace too slow for anyone to notice
Maybe, if they were hunter-gatherers, but if they were settled societies with villages and stuff, or even if they just had some prominent landmarks like Gobekli Tepe-style temples, them going underwater over years could have made these guys very nervous indeed without the even being catastrophic.

Semitic is a linguistic/cultural group, not a genetic one

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>people still think semite is an ethnic/racial terminology
JUST

Assyrians still exist, sweetie.

Not for long
Inshallah!

Hanigalblat was an Indo-European state. Egyptians are Afro-Asiatics, which is related to Semites but not identical to them.

They don't, actually. Syria is full of Syrians, not Assyrians.

The Sumerian flood myth is explicitly about the river flooding, something it did regularly. The fact that Sumerians built artificial "mountains" for their gods, and the fact they claimed to have come from the Zagros mountains themselves, both suggest they came from what is now Iran, not from the gulf, tho they would have certainly mixed with the Ubaid peoples and may well have learned agriculture from them.

>caring what /clit/ has to say about literally anything

Top kek.

>HURR Assyrrians don't live in Syria, therefore they don;t exist!

They live in Iraq you dense faggot.

Those would be Iraqis.

A lot of Assyrians are from Turkey, Syria and Iran