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Hittite belongs to the family of Anatolian languages and is among the oldest written Indo-European languages. Hittite is the modern scholarly name for the language, based on the identification of the Hatti (Ḫatti) kingdom with the Biblical Hittites (Biblical Hebrew: * חתים Ḥittim), although that name appears to have been applied ...
- attested 17th to 12th centuries BC
- Hittite cuneiform
Mar 27, 2024 · Now extinct, Anatolian languages were spoken during the 1st and 2nd millennia bce in what is presently Asian Turkey and northern Syria. By far the best-known Anatolian language is Hittite, the official language of the Hittite empire, which flourished in the 2nd millennium.
Hittite language, most important of the extinct Indo-European languages of ancient Anatolia. Hittite was closely related to Carian, Luwian, Lydian, Lycian, and Palaic (see also Anatolian languages). Hittite is known primarily from the approximately 30,000 cuneiform tablets or fragments of tablets.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
languages other than Hittite. Of these, we single out the fol lowing (apart from Babylonian already mentioned): Luwian, another IE language, related to but distinct from Hittite, spoken in the south and southwest of Anatolia; Hurrian, a non-IE, non-Semitic, language spoken in North Mesopotamia and North Syria; and a language which the ...
Hittite is the oldest Indo-European language known—older than Greek, Latin, or Sanskrit. As an Indo-European language, Hittite is related to modern-day languages like English: the Hittite word for “water” is watar! But it is not always that transparent.
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. Features that separate Anatolian from all other branches of Indo-European (such as the gender or the verb system) have been ...
Indo-Hittite languages, hypothetical family of languages composed of the Indo-European and Anatolian languages. The term Indo-Hittite was proposed by scholars who believed that Hittite and the other closely related Anatolian languages represent a language branch at the same level as all the other.
