Original: Urartian , Vannic , and ( in older literature ) Chaldean are conventional names for the language spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Urartu that was located in the region of Lake Van , with its capital near the site of the modern town of Van , in the Armenian Highland , modern-day Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey .
Simplified: Urartian is the name for the language spoken by the people of the ancient kingdom of Urartu in Northeast Anatolia ( present-day Turkey ) , in the region of Lake Van .