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Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and the term Luwian hieroglyphs is used in English publications.
- Written Luwian
- Decipherment
- Notable Features
- Luwian Hieroglyphic Logograms
- Hieroglyphic Luwian Phonetic Glyphs
- Luwian Pronunciation
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- Semanto-Phonetic Writing Systems
The Luwian hieroglyphic script was used in Anatolia and Syria between 1300 and 600 BC. It was used by the Hittites and other Anatolian peoples for monumental inscriptions and on personal seals. The origins of this script are uncertain: some scholars suggest that it might be connected to other Aegan scripts, particularly Cretan hieroglyphs, others t...
Inscriptions in the Luwian script were first discovered during the 19th century and were defined as Hittite. A number of scholars, including Ignace J. Gelb, Emil Forrer, Helmut Bossert, Bedrich Hrozný and Piero Meriggi identified some logograms in the 1930s, though were unable to make much sense of Luwian texts. In 1946 a extensive bilingual text i...
Type of writing system: semanto-phonetic, consisting of logograms, which represent words; syllabograms, which represent syllables (usually V or CV); and determinatives, which give a clue to the mea...Used to write: LuwianA selection of Luwian hieroglyphic logograms arranged according to their Latin meaning, as is conventional. Source: http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/luwglyph/Signlist_2012.pdf
Luwian words can be written entirely phonetically, or as a combination of phonetic glyphs and determinatives.
Note: this is the reconstructed pronunciation of Luwian with Latin letters that seem to fit best to the sounds. Download an alphabet chart for Luwian(Excel)
Information about the Luwian hieroglyphic script and language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphic_Luwian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luwian_hieroglyphs https://luwianstudies.org/ http://ancientworldblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/luvian-luwian-viz-hieroglyphic-hittite.html http://lila.sns.it/mnamon/index.php?page=Scrittura&id=46&lang=en Luwian hie...
Akkadian Cuneiform, Ancient Egyptian (Demotic), Ancient Egyptian (Hieratic), Ancient Egyptian (Hieroglyphs), Chinese, Chữ-nôm, Cuneiform, Japanese, Jurchen, Khitan, Linear B, Luwian, Mayan, Naxi, Sawndip (Old Zhuang), Sui, Sumerian Cuneiform, Tangut (Hsihsia) Other writing systems Page last modified: 15.03.23 [top] Why not share this page: If you l...
Luwian language, one of several ancient extinct Anatolian languages. The language is preserved in two closely related but distinct forms, one using cuneiform script and the other using hieroglyphic writing.
Anatolian hieroglyphs were used in Anatolia, as well as parts of modern Syria during the second and third millennia B.C.E. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, as one of the first discovered uses of the script was on personal seals from the ancient Hittite capital, Hattusha.
The idea that the Anatolians already had a script of their own, namely the Anatolian hieroglyphs, which are well attested in the Hittite Empire Period, was popular in the 1940s and 1950s, but the current communis opinio is that Anatolia was basically an illiterate society.
This article argues that the Anatolian hieroglyphic script, which is generally thought to have been an invention of the second half of the second millennium BCE, has its origins already in the late third/early second millennium BCE.
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