Not to be confused with Haitian language (disambiguation).
Hattic
Region
Anatolia
Ethnicity
Hattians
Era
2nd millennium BC[1]
Language family
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3
xht
Linguist List
xht
Glottolog
hatt1246
Hattic, or Hattian, was a non-Indo-European agglutinative[2][3] language spoken by the Hattians in Asia Minor in the 2nd millennium BC. Scholars call the language "Hattic" to distinguish it from Hittite, the Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire.[4] The Hittites referred to the language as "hattili" (there are no attestations of the name of the language in Hattic itself). The name is doubtlessly related to the Assyrian and Egyptian designation of an area west of the Euphrates as "Land of the Hatti" (Khatti).
The heartland of the oldest attested language of Anatolia, before the arrival of Hittite-speakers, ranged from Hattusa, then called "Hattus", northward to Nerik. Other cities mentioned in Hattic include Tuhumiyara and Tissaruliya. Hittite-speakers conquered Hattus from Kanesh to its south in the 18th century BC. They eventually absorbed or replaced the Hattic-speakers (Hattians)[citation needed] but retained the name Hatti for the region. The name of the inhabitants of that area is likewise identified with the Biblical Heth, from which, in turn, the English word Hittite is derived.
^Hattic at MultiTree on the Linguist List
^Kevin James, A Mystery in Clay: Codes, Languages, and a Journey Through Time to the Last Ice Age, p.148, AuthorHouse, 2009: "They called themselves Hattie, and spoke a non-Indo-European language called Hattic."
^The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. 22, p.593: "The non-Indo-European Hattic is an agglutinative language ..."
Hattic, or Hattian, was a non-Indo-European agglutinative language spoken by the Hattians in Asia Minor in the 2nd millennium BC. Scholars call the language...
Hattic may refer to: Hattians, an ancient people of Anatolia, Turkey Hatticlanguage, an extinct language spoken in that region This disambiguation page...
indigenous people who preceded the Hittites, speaking a non-Indo-European Hatticlanguage. In multilingual texts found in Hittite locations, passages written...
between the Northwest Caucasian (Circassian) family and the extinct Hatticlanguage. Hattic was spoken in Anatolia (Turkey), in the area around ancient Hattusa...
(Circassian) family and the extinct Hatticlanguage of central Anatolia. See the article on Northwest Caucasian languages for details. Alarodian is a proposed...
regarding the language family to which it belonged. It is sometimes suspected that Kaskian was related to the pre-Hittite Hatticlanguage, based on toponyms...
as "more conservative than Hittite" and heavily influenced by the Hatticlanguage, though caution is prescribed for the latter assertion given the paucity...
Cross-Harbour Tunnel, a road tunnel in Hong Kong The ISO 639-2 code for Hatticlanguage, spoken by the Hattians in Asia Minor between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia...
include: Hattic, an unclassified language in Anatolia. extinct languages of the Fertile Crescent such as Sumerian and Elamite. extinct languages of South...
Caucasian language group. Trevor Bryce writes: Evidence of a 'Hattic' civilization is provided by the remnants of one of the non-Indo-European languages found...
families have been identified: Elamite Hattic Kassite Lullubi Sumerian language Some well known constructed languages are agglutinative, such as Black Speech...
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Hattians in Asia Minor spoke the non-Indo-European agglutinative Hatticlanguage between the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC, before being absorbed by Hittite...
languages are attested in the area from before the Bronze Age collapse and the rise of alphabetic writing: the Sumerian, Hattic and Elamite language isolates...
further mentioned alongside Nerik in Arnuwanda I's prayer. Nerik was a Hatticlanguage speaking city which had fallen to the Kaskians by Arnuwanda's time...
other Anatolian languages, namely Luwian (alongside the native Anatolian hieroglyphics) and Palaic, as well as for the isolate Hatticlanguage. When the cuneiform...
inhabitants of Hatti and Hattusas are now called Hattites; and their Hatticlanguage was not Indo-European, but is of unknown linguistic relationship. After...
reflection of our poor knowledge of them. Hattic, Gutian, and Kassite are all considered unclassified languages, but their status is disputed by a minority...
Hittites then seized the Hattic capital of Hattusa. The Hittite language thereafter gradually supplanted Hattic as the predominant language in Anatolia. Uniting...
"Uralic languages | Britannica". 10 April 2024. Revesz, Peter (2017-01-01). "Establishing the West-Ugric language family with Minoan, Hattic and Hungarian...
Toporov 1971 See Van Driem 2001 Kassian, A. (2009–2010) Hattic as a Sino-Caucasian language // Ugarit-Forschungen. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Altertumskunde...
Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
the city. Nerik was founded by Hatticlanguage speakers as Narak; in the Hattusa archive, tablet CTH 737 records a Hattic incantation for a festival there...
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