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If you'd like to learn to read that language, Hittite is fairly well-understood. And there's a college-freshman-level grammar out since 2011. https://www.cambr
by wl 3y ago
If you'd like to learn to read that language, Hittite is fairly well-understood. And there's a college-freshman-level grammar out since 2011.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/elements-of-hittite/6FC9DEB8C9294ABB0054AC81F8D018BD#fndtn-information https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/elements-of-hittite/6FC...
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoThe Kanisite Hittite that the GP describes isn't the Hittite taught in textbooks. It is a handful of Indo-European names in otherwise non-Indo-European text. For specialists only.
- wl 3y agoI am aware. But the fragments of Hittite attested in these Old Babylonian texts predate the earliest bits of the extant Hittite corpus by about a century. Given what we know about how the Hittite language evolved when it is well-attested, the differences are unlikely to be substantial. My point remains: If you want to study the earliest attested Indo-European language, there's a good freshman-level grammar out there.