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Anatolian languages

The Carian language

While advances in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European may come a bit slower than they once did, evidentally there are new discoveries to be made in Indo-European linguistics. At the National Library I came across today Ignacio J. Adiego’s The Carian Language Handbuch der Orientalistik 86 (Leiden: Brill, 2007). It’s a description of Carian, one of [...]

Some Anatolian reading

a hettita a hettitakülönös nép a hettitaazt hiszi minden hettitamindenkiről hogy hettita Sándor Weöres, “Le Journal”(from Csontváry-Vásznak, 1953). Recently I’ve read two papers about an IE branch I rarely do much with, Anatolian. The first item is Jaan Puhvel’s paper “Whence the Hittite, Whither the Jonesian Vision?” in Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations into [...]