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| | Hittite Cuneiform |
 | | fter Winckler's death, the German Orient Society of Berlin had handed over the collection of Hittite cuneiform material from Boghazkoy to a group of young Assyriologists, in order that they might arrange and transcribe it. | | | uch a reading of the sentence was an amazing confirmation of the idea which had been suggested as early as 1902 by Hittite after all was an Indo-European language! | | | Vadar, water, Wasser-how staggering it is to realise that with three thousand years intervening, a Frisian living on the North Sea coast of Germany and a Pennsylvania Dutchman of eastern North America would understand a Hittite's cry of thirst! |
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/hittite_cuneiform.htm
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| | Grammar of Lydian language by Cyril Babaev |
| | This can be confirmed by the fact that already in the 2nd millennium BC, when no one knew Lydians and the Hittite Empire was prospering, Egyptian sources mention some people from Asia Minor which were called "shardanna". | | | Among other relative pronouns we can name nâqis - "whoever", and as for interrogative, kot - "how?, in what way?", and kud - "why?"; the last two lost labial sounds which were present in their Hittite ancestors kuwat and kuwad. | | | Since then, many Greek colonists started arriving and settling in Lydia, its capital Sardis and its shores, and since then, Lydia never gained independence again, being always under the Greek rule. |
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http://indoeuro.bizland.com/project/grammar/grammar21.html
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| | Hittite language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
| | Although his methodology was flawed and some of his reconstructions were incorrect, he provided the impetus enabling the successful decipherment of the language, which was helped to a greater extent by the discovery of bilingual tablets in Akkadian and Hittite. | | | test={{{URL}}} then=[{{{URL}}} Life and Society in the Hittite World] else=Life and Society in the Hittite World | | | These sounds, whose existence had been hypothesized by Ferdinand de Saussure on the basis of vowel quality in other Indo-European languages in 1879, were not preserved as separate sounds in any attested Indo-European language until the discovery of Hittite. |
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http://www.arikah.com/encyclopedia/Nesili
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| | Hittite Online |
| | It is generally assumed that the Hittites came into Anatolia some time before 2000 B.C. While their earlier location is disputed, there has been strong evidence for more than a century that the home of the Indo-Europeans in the fourth and third millennia was in what is now southern Russia and the Ukraine. | | | It cannot be noted too often that Brugmann stated specifically in 1897 that his reconstructions did not represent a historically earlier language but that they were rather compilations of the data; he left the historical presentation to the future. | | | The Hittites and other member of the Anatolian family, then, came form the north, possibly along the Caspian Sea. |
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/hitol-0-X.html
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| | The Paleolithic Indo-Europeans |
| | But what those reasons might have been, in what way the Hittites made their way around the Black Sea to Anatolia, and how they established themselves in an area that was already filled with advanced Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age cultures all continued to be insoluble mysteries. | | | Looking again at the map, it seems entirely possible that the original Greek homeland might have consisted of the eastern shore of the Aegean together with the larger islands, and that the less hospitable Greek mainland was settled only subsequent to the flooding of those coastal areas at the end of the Ice Age. | | | The Anatolian version of the hypothesis -- which suggested that the Hittites were simply the people who stayed behind when their cousins brought agriculture to Europe -- seemed particularly tidy. |
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http://www.enter.net/~torve/trogholm/wonder/indoeuropean/indoeuropean4.html
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| | Film on Hittite Empire features O.I. scholars, complements their work |
| | Despite extensive scholarly work, no complete dictionary of the Hittite language was immediately produced. | | | “The film follows, through reenactment, the lives of four kings and queens and inserts interviews from scholars, as well as footage from sights in the Middle East connected with the Hittites in Turkey, Syria and Egypt. | | | The Hittites were also responsible for transferring traditions and myths between Mesopotamia and the West, to Greece and Rome, van den Hout said. |
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http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/041104/hittites.shtml
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| | The language of threatening letters to King David MetaFilter |
| | You can look at the time period and what Hittite's relatives were doing at the time and compare it. | | | This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments | | | So I've been going around for the past 19 years believing that the Hittites were just a made up culture populated by people that worshipped Zuul. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27330
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| | Hittite language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Although his methodology was flawed and some of his reconstructions were incorrect, he provided the impetus enabling the successful decipherment of the language, which was helped to a greater extent by the discovery of bilingual tablets in Akkadian and Hittite. | | | These sounds, whose existence had been hypothesized by Ferdinand de Saussure on the basis of vowel quality in other Indo-European languages in 1879, were not preserved as separate sounds in any attested Indo-European language until the discovery of Hittite. | | | There is some attestation that Hittite and related languages were still spoken for a few hundred years after that. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittite_language
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| | Hittite Home Page |
| | C.W. Ceram, Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire | | | Trevor Bryce, Life And Society In The Hittite World | | | This page was last updated on May 27, 2005. |
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http://www.asor.org/HITTITE/HittiteHP.html
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| | Language Miniatures 104: The ancient Hittite language |
| | Here's a little sample of what you find. | | | This time our brief spotlight is on a language that seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth something like two and a half millennia ago. | | | This established beyond question what has been suspected since the 1870s or so: unlike all the other languages of the ancient Near East, Hittite was somehow related to our own Indo-European languages (for language families, see Miniature No. 38). |
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http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/miniatures/hittite.htm
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| | Hittite Language |
| | The Palaic-speaking peoples were also rolled into the Hittite population. | | | Unlocking the secrets of the ancient writing system, however, proved that the language was not Hittite but Luwian (or Luvian). | | | Northern and eastern Anatolia was inhabited by non-Indo-European speaking peoples, the Hattic and Hurrian peoples, when Indo-European speakers, the Hittites and the Luvian, migrated from outside of Anatolia. |
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/hittite_language.htm
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| | Lydian language -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. | | | Geographically the most widespread language on Earth is English, and it is second only to Mandarin Chinese in the number of people who speak it. | | | Hittite is known primarily from the approximately 25,000 cuneiform tablets or fragments of tablets preserved in the archives of Bogazköy (the ancient Hattusa, in modern Turkey), the majority of which are from the period of the Hittite empire... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049500
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| | Anatolian Languages |
| | First Luwian documents refer to the 16th century B.C. Luwian was used together with Hittite in the capital city of Hattusa, many Luwian documents were found in Royal libraries there. | | | Sydetic is believed to have been not the language of a particular nation, but a mixture, a border dialect of Carian, Lydian and Lycian together. | | | Among the nations which served to the Persians in their invasion to Greece, Herodot once mentioned the Pisidic people. |
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/anatolian_languages.htm
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| | Hittites |
| | Hittites, ancient people of Asia Minor and Syria, who flourished from 1600 to 1200 B.C. The Hittites, a people of Indo-European connection, were supposed to have entered Cappadocia c.1800 B.C. To the southwest, in the Taurus and Cilicia, were the Luites, relatives of the Hittites; to the southeast, in the Upper Euphrates, the Hurrians (Khurrites). | | | Besides the Babylonian inscriptions, there are many in Hittite hieroglyphs, or Kanesian. | | | There are several other languages meagerly represented in the Hittite archives: the so-called Luwian (similar to Hittite), and Khattian and Hurrian (both non–Indo-European and apparently unrelated to one another). |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0823837.html
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hattic language |
| | Hattic was a non-Indo-European language spoken in Asia Minor between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia BC, before the appearance of the Hittites. | | | The names "Hattic" and "Hittite" are modern terms, and both are apparently derived from the same word, the ancient name of the region where the two cultures flourished, which has been reconstructed as Hatti in the Hittite language. | | | The term "Hittite", taken from the Hebrew Bible, was first given in the early 20th century (rightly or wrongly) to the more recent culture and its Indo-European language; the names "Hattian" and "Hattic" were then coined decades late for the older culture and its non-Indo-European language. |
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http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Hattic_language
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| | NEW EAST WING GALLERY: Study of the Hittite Language |
| | Oriental Institute scholars have been working on a Hittite Dictionary since 1976. | | | The Hittites used this script on their seals and for large rock inscriptions to reach the population at large. | | | The University of Chicago's late Hans Guterbock was a pioneering scholar of the language, and that work is carried on by his colleagues Harry Hoffher and van den Hout and their research team. |
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http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/GALLERY/EAST/Hittite_language.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library Indo-Hittite |
| | The other branch of the Indo-Hittite family is Anatolian, which includes Hittite as well as several other lesser-known languages. | | | Please note that only languages for which works have been found in the Mansfield Library are included in this list. | | | The Indo-Hittite family of languages is more commonly called Indo-European, but since one branch of the family also has that name, the name Indo-Hittite will be used for the family in this work, to avoid confusion. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/indohih.htm
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| | Hittite Language Class |
| | As Clifton stated, "While a language may be classified as dead because it is no longer used, the study of the language allows us to understand the thought processes and ideas of an ancient people, so in that sense, it is very alive." | | | Grey Professor of classics at Davidson, French has been a scholar of classical languages for a long time, but this is the first time that he's had a "market" for Hittite among his students. | | | "The main point in studying ancient languages is to satisfy one's curiosity about the lives, thinking, and culture of people who inhabited this planet before us," said French. |
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http://www2.davidson.edu/news/news_archives/archives00/00.10hittite.html
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| | Department of Classical Studies |
| | In Classics we are interested in a range of subjects, not only language and literature, but also history, politics, science, medicine, art, religion and philosophy. | | | Classics is at the heart of the humanities and is the core of the liberal arts. | | | Our goal is to encourage students to study the languages, cultures and histories of ancient Greece and Rome, so that they may develop an accurate appreciation of the inherent interest, importance and usefulness of the study of the Greek and Roman worlds. |
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http://classics.richmond.edu
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| | Justus' Publications |
| | (This is a study of the range of request expressions in older IE prayers, including Hittite, Homeric Greek, and Latin which uses this data base to argue for the age of IE mood forms; see also Language Change, IE Morpology, IE Prayer. | | | New York: Academic Press.(Deals with the order and morphological marking of Hittite relative clauses; see also Language Change, IE Morpology, IE Syntax, Word Order Typology. | | | See also Language Change, Hittite, IE Subgrouping, IE Morphology. |
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-pubs/CFJ/Lg-change.html
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| | Lycian |
| | hãkka- A (to demand) [Hittite sanh- 'to attempt'] | | | L - a sound of Lydian transcribed as Greek "lambda" | | | qaja B (a temple?) [Latin omen, Hittite ha'- 'to believe'] |
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http://www.wordgumbo.com/ie/cmp/lyci.htm
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| | Independent Online Edition > Reviews |
| | As Guy Deutscher shows with quotations from Cicero, Swift, Orwell, French Academicians and Samuel Johnson, "Tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration." Language is never what it was in the good old days. | | | But, while puncturing the myth of a linguistic golden age, Deutscher does point us back to something akin: the Proto-Indo-European tongue, from which almost all languages from the Celtic fringe to the east of India are descended. | | | Through speculative archaeology, coupled with scrutiny of the linguistic past as it manifests itself in the present, he aims to show how languages evolve. |
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http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article303364.ece
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| | Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family ISBN: 0941694771 | | | Please wait while we find you the best price for Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family, this should take no more than 30 seconds. |
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http://www.bookhead.co.uk/0941694771.aspx
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| | Hittite Language |
| | The Hittite dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. |
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http://www.lib.washington.edu/NearEast/hittlang.html
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| | Redirection |
| | You will be redirected towards this new URL in 5 seconds... | | | The URL of the Hittite Grammar Homepage has changed. |
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http://o.lauffenburger.free.fr
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