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- Hattian language, non-Indo-European language of ancient Anatolia. The Hattian language appears as hattili ‘in Hattian’ in Hittite cuneiform texts. Called Proto-Hittite by some, Hattian was the language of the linguistic substratum inside the Halys River (now called the Kızıl River) bend and in more-northerly regions.
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Hattian language, non-Indo-European language of ancient Anatolia. The Hattian language appears as hattili ‘in Hattian’ in Hittite cuneiform texts. Called Proto-Hittite by some, Hattian was the language of the linguistic substratum inside the Halys River (now called the Kızıl River) bend and in.
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Hattic, or Hattian, was a non-Indo-European agglutinative language spoken by the Hattians in Asia Minor in the 2nd millennium BC. Scholars call the language "Hattic" to distinguish it from Hittite, the Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire.
- 2nd millennium BC
- Unclassified language
Hattians spoke the Hattian language, a non-Indo-European and non-Semitic language of uncertain affiliation. Hattian is now believed by some scholars to be related to the Northwest Caucasian language group. [13]
One of the limited corpus languages of the Ancient Near East is Hattian, the language of the non-Indo-European indigenous population of Cen-tral Anatolia of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. There is general con-sensus that the speakers of Hattian lived within the bend of the Kızıl Ir-
Hattian, Hurrian, and Urartian are all non-Indo-European. Although the Hattian and Hurrian peoples did influence Hittite culture , their contributions to the Hittite language were mostly limited to terms for local flora, fauna, and a few other categories.
From their first appearance among the indigenous Anatolians, the Hittites seem to have mingled freely, while the more flexible Nesite language gradually replaced Hattian. It has even been argued that Anatolia was the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans and that they gradually spread east and west after about 7000 bce , carrying with them ...
Several non-Indo-European languages of ancient Anatolia are known from cuneiform texts: Hattian (Hattic), spoken in central and northern Anatolia before the coming of the Hittites and known solely from words and texts preserved by Hittite scribes; Hurrian, spoken in the 3rd and 2nd millennia bce in northern Mesopotamia and southeastern Anatolia ...
