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Hittite (natively nešili of Neša) a.k.a. Nesite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, an Indo-European people
who created an empire centred on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia. The language is attested in cuneiform, in records from
the 16th down to the 13th century BC, with isolated Hittite loanwords and numerous personal names appearing in an Old Assyrian context
from as early as the 20th century BC. By the Late Bronze Age, Hittite had started losing ground to its close relative Luwian.
It appears that in the 13th century BC Luwian was the most widely spoken language in the Hittite capital Hattusa. After the
collapse of the Hittite Empire as a part of the more general Bronze Age collapse Luwian emerged in the Early Iron Age as the
main language of the so-called Neo-Hittite states in southwestern Anatolia and northern Syria. Hittite is the earliest attested
Indo-European language. It is the most copiously known of the Anatolian branch. |
Names (more)[en] Hittite, Old |
Language type : Ancient
Technical notes
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