Original sentence: After the disappearance of Urartu as a political entity, the Armenians dominated the ancient highlands, absorbing portions of the previous Urartian culture in the process.Currently, samples of Urartian written language have survived in many inscriptions found in the area of Urartu kingdom.It had close linguistic similarities to Northeast Caucasian languages.Some scholars also place it in the Alarodian family, based on linguistic similarities with Northeast Caucasian lanaguages.The Urartians spoke an agglutinative language, conventionally called Urartian, which was related to Hurrian in the Hurro-Urartian family, and was neither Semitic nor Indo-European.The existence of Urartu was forgotten by the 5th century AD.There is also possibly a connection between Urartian and the modern Georgian language.Today, Armenians, Kurds and Turks consider history of Urartu as part of their national history.Urartu was an ancient kingdom in eastern Anatolia, centred in the mountainous region around Lake Van (present-day Turkey), which existed from about 1000 BC, or earlier, until 585 BC, and which, at its apogee, stretched from northern Mesopotamia through the southern Caucasus, involving parts of present-day Armenia up to Lake Sevan
Edited sentence: Modern Armenians are the descendants of the Urartuians.The Urartuians spoke an agglutinative language, conventionally called Urartian, which was related to Hurrian in the Hurro-Urartian family, and was neither Semitic nor Indo-European.The existence of Urartu was forgotten by the fifth century AD.Urartu was an ancient kingdom in eastern Anatolia, centred in the mountainous region around Lake Van and extending into the Republic of Armenia, which existed from about 1000 BC, or earlier, until 585 BC, and which, at its apogee, stretched from northern Mesopotamia through the southern Caucasus