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So? What about the Hittites? There is a slight gap between 1700 BC and 4500 BC.
by fvvybfbfbyg 2y ago
So? What about the Hittites? There is a slight gap between 1700 BC and 4500 BC.
- philwelch 2y agoPrior to the discovery of the Hittite language, linguists had compared the various Indo-European languages they knew of and did much of the work of reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European language based on comparative linguistics. This work was highly conjectural, but it provided something akin to a falsifiable theory that could be tested by the discovery of another written Indo-European language. Such a language was Hittite, and the Hittite language fits the model of Indo-European languages that had been constructed prior to its discovery.
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