Talk:Hittite language
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It appears to me that this article and a linked article are in dissagreement or atleast coexist disharmoniously. I suggest that someone edit the two articles expecially as regards eytemology and the naming of the Anatolian Hittites. (Jimsim 14:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC))
what inscriptions are availiable in Hittite? is there a link/photo?
i'm going to go ahead and add the native name as seen in the commented out text, and a link. i'm going to change that 8 million in the table to "extinct", too - Dysfunktion 16:43, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I think it's best if editors refrain from comparing Hittite to other Indo-European languages (Sanskrit, Ancient Greek) using terms such as "simple" and "complicated." This is not an accurate description of the reasons for differences between these daughter languages. Further, the comparison of languages such as Tocharian and Lithuanian to Hittite is redundant. Neither of these languages is found in a written form at a comparable date to Hittite (the same is also true of Sanskrit and Greek [Linear B excepted, but the texts are mostly inventories and do not show the range of inflectional forms found in Homeric Greek for example] although evidence of preservation of significantly older oral forms of these languages in the earliest written sources [vedas, Homer] has been suggested). Indo-European linguistics is a theoretical study and its practitioners are the first to admit this. It seems to me that it would be wiser (in this arena) to present what is KNOWN about the Hittite language, rather than what is theorized (AABell 12:03, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC))
- In a possibly related point, to a non-linguist the statement that the language "lacks several features common to other old Indo-European languages" is fairly meaningless if you don't go on to explain what it lacks that the others have. --OpenToppedBus 08:30, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
- sure, "to be expanded". "lack" may mean either lost or not yet developed (Indo-Hittite). examples are the s-Aorist (or indeed most verbal categories) and the feminine gender. dab (ᛏ) 10:42, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
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It should be mentioned that this language is the only known Indo-European language that was agglutinative. -213.39.205.217 21:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Contradiction with Hittites
This sentence: The later languages Lycian and Lydian are also attested in Hittite territory. Lycian is a descendant of Luwian. Lydian, on the other hand, is quite distinct and cannot be a descendant of either Hittite or Luwian contradicts a similar sentence in the Hittites article. It says that The later Lydian language appears to be directly descended from Hittite. I am not sufficiently familiar with this language family to resolve the confliction.--WilliamThweatt 06:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
The theory is that Lydian is decended from Hittite and Lycian from Luwian I believe. Enlil Ninlil 07:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
