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Há 3 dias · The Indo-Hittite hypothesis proposes that the Indo-European language family consists of two main branches: one represented by the Anatolian languages and another branch encompassing all other Indo-European languages.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
Há 2 dias · The archaeological discovery of the archives of the Hittites and the classification of the Hittite language to a separate Anatolian branch of the Indo-European languages caused a sensation among historians, forcing a re-evaluation of Near Eastern history and Indo-European linguistics.
Há 2 dias · Hittite is the best attested member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, and the Indo-European language for which the earliest surviving written attestation exists, with isolated Hittite loanwords and numerous personal names appearing in an Old Assyrian context from as early as the 20th century BC.
I was referring to the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European family, of which Hittite is the most well known member. Akkadian is a Semitic language of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Sumerian is an earlier language of Mesopotamia unrelated to either Akkadian or Hititte. These languages were also superseded by newer languages in the region.
Há 5 dias · So let's talk about (proto-)Indo-European. Not in terms of "glottochronology might not be wrong," but in terms of, you know, actual evidence.That evidence takes the form of an ever-increasing mass monumental texts in Bronze Age/Early Iron Age monumental texts in "Heiroglyphic Luwian," and collections of documents in Hittite texts that are usually called archives, but might actually be working ...
Há 2 dias · My emphasis on the language of the Greeks, calling for comparison with the testimony of related Indo-European languages including Latin, Indic, and Hittite, reflects my long-standing interest in Indo-European linguistics, a discipline that has in the past been successfully applied to the systematic study of society in such pioneering works as Emile Benveniste’s Le vocabulaire des ...
Há 3 dias · The Norwegian linguist Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon was able to decipher the very ancient (second millennium BC) Hittite language in part because the Hittite word for “water” was approximately “wadar” – ie it was remarkably similar to the word found in many modern Indo-European languages, including English and German (“wasser”).
