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Luwian (/ˈluːwiən/), sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The ethnonym Luwian comes from Luwiya (also spelled Luwia or Luvia) – the name of the region in which the Luwians lived. Luwiya is attested, for example, in the Hittite laws.[1]
The two varieties of Proto-Luwian or Luwian (in the narrow sense of these names) are known after the scripts in which they were written: Cuneiform Luwian (CLuwian) and Hieroglyphic Luwian (HLuwian). There is no consensus as to whether these were a single language or two closely related languages.
^Law number 21 of the Code of the Nesilim says, "If anyone steal a slave of a Luwian from the land of Luwia, and lead him here to the land of Hatti, and his master discover him, he shall take his slave only."
Luwian (/ˈluːwiən/), sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European...
The Luwians /ˈluːwiənz/ were an ancient people in Anatolia who spoke the Luwianlanguage. During the Bronze Age, Luwians formed part of the population...
Hieroglyphic Luwian (luwili) is a variant of the Luwianlanguage, recorded in official and royal seals and a small number of monumental inscriptions....
known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and the term Luwian hieroglyphs is used in English publications...
Indo-European languages. By the Late Bronze Age, Hittite had started losing ground to its close relative Luwian. It appears that in the 13th century BC, Luwian was...
hieroglyphic Luwian survived until the conquest of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms by Assyria, and alphabetic inscriptions in Anatolian languages are fragmentarily...
Iron Age or Late Luwian period. During the Bronze Age, the Luwians were under the control of the Hittites. They spoke the Luwianlanguage, a close relative...
was part of the Luwianlanguage family. However, only a few words can be derived from Luwian roots, like maśara 'for the gods' (Luwian masan(i)-, 'god'...
original wooden type). The Luwianlanguage had a version, Hieroglyphic Luwian, that is read in boustrophedon style (most of the language was written down in...
Its etymology is unknown. One proposal derives it from a hypothetical Luwian word *kursatta (compare kursawar 'island', kursattar 'cutting, sliver')...
family; along with the closely related Luwianlanguage, it is the oldest historically attested Indo-European language. The history of the Hittite civilization...
probably falls outside the centum–satem division; for instance, the Luwianlanguage indicates that all three dorsal consonant rows survived separately...
Persian name is Katpatuka. It was proposed that Kat-patuka came from the Luwianlanguage, meaning "Low Country". Subsequent research suggests that the adverb...
cognate with Luwian word "ha+ra/i-na-sà", which means fortress. If so, the city's ancient name was probably borrowed from Carian, a Luwic language native to...
Hittite Empire, and Tuwana (𔑢𔗬𔐤𔔂) in the Luwianlanguage during the Syro-Hittite period. From the Luwian name Tuwana were derived the Neo-Assyrian Akkadian...
certain that there was one single language used in the city at the time. One candidate language is Luwian, an Anatolian language which was widely spoken in Western...
Minor from c. 1450 to 1100 BC. The 13th century BC saw the arrival of Luwianlanguage speakers from south central Anatolia calling themselves the Carians...
BC. In the context of Luwian Studies, Luwian, however, is a toponym encompassing peoples of different ethnicity and languages. It is thus an abstract...
Hittite, the Luwianlanguage does not contain loanwords from Hattic, indicating that it was initially spoken in western Anatolia. The Luwians inhabited a...
interest, both among ancient writers and modern scholars. In early Hittite, Luwian, Cilician and Greek usage between the 9th century BC and 2nd century BC...
hieroglyphs" used for the Luwianlanguage. Evidence for this is restricted to Altıntepe. There are suggestions that besides the Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions...
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