Anatolian languages
Hittite language family
Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in ancient Anatolia (modern Turkey) and surrounding regions.
Hittite is the best-known and earliest attested, preserved in cuneiform tablets from the second millennium BCE.
Other Anatolian languages include Luwian, Palaic, and Lycian.
The branch died out by the first millennium CE, but its early attestation has proven crucial for reconstructing Proto-Indo-European.
- HittiteAncient Anatolian civilization
- Bronze AgeEarly metalworking civilization period
- extinct languagesTongues no longer spoken
- dead languageTongue no longer spoken natively
- language familyRelated tongues from one source
Asia Minor · morphology · phonology · hieroglyphs · Turkey · ancient empire · lost civilization · Old World · ancient scripts · decipherment · scribes · Lydian · extinct · ancient · clay · tablets · written records · cuneiform
- AnatoliaAsia Minor, Ankara, Cappadocia, Istanbul, Izmir
Anatolian languagesliving languages
Languages with native speakers
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