Hittite language

instead of cuneiform script. Hittite (natively: 𒌷𒉌𒅆𒇷, romanized: nešili / "the language of Neša", or nešumnili / "the language of the people of Neša")...

The Hittites (/ˈhɪtaɪts/) were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia. Possibly originating...

Indo-European language Hittite grammar Hittite phonology Hittite cuneiform Hittite inscriptions Hittite laws Hittite religion Hittite music Hittite art Hittite cuisine...

linguistics, the term Indo-Hittite (also Indo-Anatolian) refers to Edgar Howard Sturtevant's 1926 hypothesis that the Anatolian languages may have split off a...

Luwian. Long after the extinction of the Hittite language, Luwian continued to be spoken in the Neo-Hittite states of Syria, such as Milid and Carchemish...

The corpus of texts written in the Hittite language is indexed by the Catalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH, since 1971). The catalogue is only a classification...

Turkey. The best known Anatolian language is Hittite, which is considered the earliest-attested Indo-European language. Undiscovered until the late 19th...

other symbols. Language portal Asia portal Hittite cuneiform is the implementation of cuneiform script used in writing the Hittite language. The surviving...

subject and neighbouring peoples. Its Hittite-language introduction describes its main text as in "the language of the land of Kalašma" (URUka-la-aš-mi-li)...

form of Mycenaean Greek and the Anatolian languages of Hittite and Luwian. The oldest records are isolated Hittite words and names—interspersed in texts that...

Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire. The Hittites referred to the language as "hattili" (there are no attestations of the name of the language in Hattic...

Iranian, Old Latin and Hittite, while traces of it can be found in the enclitic personal pronouns of the Tocharian languages. Indo-European vocabulary...

also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. Its ruins lie...

The grammar of the Hittite language has a highly conservative verbal system and rich nominal declension. The language is attested in cuneiform, and is...

that the Hittites where a much more influential culture than previously thought with their own art and language. Sayce concluded that the Hittite hieroglyphic...

Hittite phonology is the description of the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of the Hittite language. Because Hittite as a spoken language is...

contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language, and laid the groundwork for the development...

Uriah the Hittite (Hebrew: אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּי‎ ʾŪrīyyā haḤītī) is a minor figure in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, an elite soldier...

the Luwian language, meaning "Low Country". Subsequent research suggests that the adverb katta meaning 'down, below' is exclusively Hittite, while its...

the Hittites, El was known as Elkunirsa (Hittite: 𒂖𒆪𒉌𒅕𒊭 Elkunīrša). Although ʼĒl gained different appearances and meanings in different languages over...