Who Were the Hittites? - Early Indo-Europeans
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- 🔍 Unlocking the Mysteries: Who Were the Hittites? - An Early Indo-European group
Curious minds, it's time to embark on a journey into the fascinating history of the Hittites! 🌍 Ever wondered how this ancient empire came into existence? Brace yourselves for an intriguing tale, with a focus on one key element that is often overlooked in other analyses on the subject.
🏛 The Birth of the Hittite Empire
The Hittite empire emerged from the fledgling Kuššaran kingdom, a period marked by pivotal campaigns against the Hattians, a non-Indo-European speaking group.
🔑 Key Players and Turning Points
Who were the driving forces behind the Hittite ascendancy? What were the critical moments that shaped their destiny?
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Very well done. Thank you for this.
Thank you very much for the feedback!
Very interesting! But I have to ask why you pronounce š like s is pronounced in English, isn't š supposed to indicate a sound similar to how sh is pronounced in English?
Great question! In Van den Hout's book on Hittite he notes that whilst traditionally transliterated with a hacek, the value of š remains uncertain and it shouldn't be taken as evidence that it was a palatal sound (like sh in show).
Is there a chance to create a neo hittite language like modern Hebrew and if that was the case. Would people still use hittite cuneiform or create an alphabet with its own script like if it was based on luwian hieroglyphs and turn it into an alphabet like the Egyptians wrote hieratic based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Good question. Cuneiform is a great writing system if you're working with clay, it loses some of its advantages in the modern world so I suspect an alphabet or syllabary would be needed. The latin script could work and it's what most Hittite linguists use anyways rather than cuneiform. It's definitely possible to simplify cuneiform symbols to make them function like an alphabet or better a syllabary. The biggest hurdle would be that we don't as of yet have a complete knowledge of Hittite grammar nor its less formal registers.
Thanks for the answer I would also like to ask. I'm aware that Anatolian is a language family but do linguistics also call hittite Anatolian as if they are interchangeable. Like Irish is at times called Gaelic even though it's a subbranch of Celtic.
Yes people sometimes use Hittite when they mean Anatolian, this is because for a long time when you spoke about Hittite you were de facto talking about Anatolian as it was the only major branch attested (and Luwian was still thought to be a variety of Hittite). Celtic is the language family and it divides into insular and continental. Gaelic/Gaelige/Irish is a branch of the Goidelic branch of insular celtic! Hope that makes sense...there are a lot of branches to Celtic
So can we still learn hittite fluently despite some grammar missing or is it impossible?
Fluently in the sense that we can more or less understand everything that we have written in Hittite (which are texts from the bronze age), there are still some minor areas we don't quite understand (such as the function of enclitic 'kan'). If one wanted to use neo-hittite as a modern language the biggest challege would be coming up with terms for modern ideas and concepts although it's far from impossible.
Another issue is that we don't know much about informal/colloquial Hittite. We can make very educated guesses though.