Talk:Kassites
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There seems to be disagreement on the language they spoke. If indeed the language is agglutinating, then it would not be Indo-European. Does anyone have any resources on the language?
- "speaking an Indo-European language"
- "No inscription or document in the Kassite language has been preserved"
- "Kassites, was agglutinative; a fragment of Kassite vocabulary has survived in a single Cuneiform tablet."
- "Apparently, Kassite has no connection with Indo-European, as had erroneously been supposed."
Can someone clear this up??? D.E. Cottrell 06:46, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I don't think Kassite is believed to be Indo-European - there may, as with the Hurrians of Mitanni, have been an Indo-European-derived aristocracy. BTW, is anything more known about the classification of Kassite? Is it ever associated with, for instance, either Hurrian or Elamite? john k 14:45, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
