West Semitic and Hurrian, the very forces that would be mainly responsible for the language and writing that we find in the Amarna letters centuries later.34 With the exception of EA 15 (Assyrian), EA 24 (Hurrian), and EA 31–32 (Hittite),35 the language of the Amarna letters is Babylonian, but for the most part it is a Babylonian profoundly different from that of the previous international age. It reflects many of the developments that one finds in the “good” Middle Babylonian language of the letters