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The 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. Fo
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
The 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.