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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Guti (/ˈɡuːti/) or Quti, also known by the derived exonyms Gutians or Guteans, were a nomadic people of the Zagros Mountains in ancient times. They are often regarded as precursors of the modern Kurds.Conflict with Gutium or Qutium (Sumerian: Gu-tu-umki or Gu-ti-umki) has been linked to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire, towards the end of the 3rd millennium BCE. The Guti subsequently overran southern Mesopotamia and formed, for several generations a royal dynasty of Sumer.Sumerian sources portray the Guti as a barbarous and rapacious people from the mountains, presumably the central Zagros east of Babylon and north of Elam (on the border of modern Iran and Iraq). The Sumerian king list represents them as ruling over Sumer for a short time after the fall of the Akkadian Empire, and portrays Gutian rule as chaotic.Biblical scholars believe that the Guti may be the \"Koa\" (qôa), named with the Shoa and Pekod as enemies of Jerusalem in Ezekiel 23:23. Qôa also means \"male camel\" in Hebrew, and in the context of Ezekiel 23, it may be a deliberate, insulting distortion of an endonym such as Quti.Little is known of the origins, language and material culture of the Guti, as contemporary sources provide little information and no artifacts have been positively identified. Gutian names, recorded in a list of Sumerian kings, suggest that Gutian was not closely related to other languages of the region (including Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian, Hittite and Elamite). According to the linguists Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, the Gutian language belonged to the Indo-European language family and was most closely related to the Tocharian languages found later in eastern Central Asia."@en }

• Gutian_people abstract "The Guti (/ˈɡuːti/) or Quti, also known by the derived exonyms Gutians or Guteans, were a nomadic people of the Zagros Mountains in ancient times. They are often regarded as precursors of the modern Kurds.Conflict with Gutium or Qutium (Sumerian: Gu-tu-umki or Gu-ti-umki) has been linked to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire, towards the end of the 3rd millennium BCE. The Guti subsequently overran southern Mesopotamia and formed, for several generations a royal dynasty of Sumer.Sumerian sources portray the Guti as a barbarous and rapacious people from the mountains, presumably the central Zagros east of Babylon and north of Elam (on the border of modern Iran and Iraq). The Sumerian king list represents them as ruling over Sumer for a short time after the fall of the Akkadian Empire, and portrays Gutian rule as chaotic.Biblical scholars believe that the Guti may be the \"Koa\" (qôa), named with the Shoa and Pekod as enemies of Jerusalem in Ezekiel 23:23. Qôa also means \"male camel\" in Hebrew, and in the context of Ezekiel 23, it may be a deliberate, insulting distortion of an endonym such as Quti.Little is known of the origins, language and material culture of the Guti, as contemporary sources provide little information and no artifacts have been positively identified. Gutian names, recorded in a list of Sumerian kings, suggest that Gutian was not closely related to other languages of the region (including Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian, Hittite and Elamite). According to the linguists Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, the Gutian language belonged to the Indo-European language family and was most closely related to the Tocharian languages found later in eastern Central Asia.".