Talk:Hittite language

message: If the article is correct and the phoneme /s/ is meant here, what possible reason could there be for not transcribing the sound with a simple "s"? Simply as an homage to the initial Czech researcher? It certainly causes needless ambiguities and people writing inappropriate "sh"s - eg, "Hattusha(sh)" and "Kanesh." -LlywelynII (talk) 12:49, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The original reason is that the Akkadian series denoted with  was exclusively used by scribes to write in Hittite, not the series denoted with . Tradition and habit do play a role; dropping the diacritic doesn't do harm and is often done, just like  is often notated simply as ; in context, the meaning is clear, of course. However, you need to keep in mind that the pronunciation of the Hittite sibilant is not known precisely, and a case can be made (and has been made) that it was pronounced like a "shibilant", or like a retracted sibilant, which could have influenced the choice of the Hittite scribes. So the transcription  and even the spelling with  may be unnecessary, but isn't necessary wrong. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:21, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Hittite š

message: Two questions:
1) If URU is simply a nonverbalized indication that a place is being discussed, what possible reason could there be for its inclusion where such a distinction is obvious - for example, in the native language transcription of Hattusa?
2) Regardless of whether Hittite conjugations were mentioned in the cuneiform, it's still believed they used them and we understand them. Why are they consistently omitted - again, for example, Hattusa, which would presumably have been Hattusas to the Hittites themselves? -LlywelynII (talk) 12:49, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Hittite placenames

message: This needs a clearifing, As far as i know Hattusa as a kingdom have been recorded many times in Hittite state archives and also many Stele have been found (like one of Mursili I) in Hattusa, on Land of Hatti. 
What can be the dispution among scholars while archeological evidence is indisputable about existance?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.214.101.159 (talk) 09:53, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Hatti Kingdom and(still disputed)

message: The Hittite verb "suwaiemi" seems to mean "I fill". Experts are welcome to correct me.
Three boxes are blank, referring to the verb.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.189.240 (talk) 10:57, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning 

message: A language being Indo-European does not mean much since there are NO sharply defined independant language families.
Please see below:
http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/showthread.php?p=115706#post115706
Humanbyrace (talk) 19:16, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It means a lot if you are an indo-europeanist and trying to reconstruct the root language the various members of the family derive from.  I suspect most people who take anything more than a superficial interest in Hittite are indo-europeanists trying to do that.  Otherwise, I'm not getting your point.  Are you proposing a change to the article?  Or are you trying to use this talk page like any random internet discussion forum?  Ekwos (talk) 04:05, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Hittite language Indo-European!? 

message: This para confuses singulars and plurals and thus conceals which laryngeals are really meant in the different sentences. HJJHolm (talk) 08:03, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Laryngeals 

message: We need reasons (the Phrygian invasions, the "sea peoples," Assyrian military actions) and some description of the decline and gradual extinction of the language.  I can approach it from a historical basis but a linguist should provide the material about the technical disappearance of Hittite.  If someone's watching this page with the expertise, please respond?  Thank you. HammerFilmFan (talk) 15:46, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  article definitely needs some work on the disappearance of Hittite as a language 

message: How can Hittite 'preserve' any linguistic feature, etc. if Hittite is EXTINCT?
:By virtue of being recorded in written texts, duh. When your goal is linguistic reconstruction, you don't care if your data comes from a language or language stage which is still spoken; typically, it comes from older stages of living languages or completely extinct languages. I'm pretty sure this way of phrasing it is not unique to historical linguistics, but can be found in history, anthropology, ethnology, archaeology and biology as well. Technical jargon won't always please pedants (like when linguists casually anthropomorphise languages). --Florian Blaschke (talk) 17:54, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The use of the word 'preserve' 

message: Ignace Gelb's 3-volume work on Hittite and the  hieroglyphic monuments are available at University of Chicago.
108.18.136.147 (talk) 13:59, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  gelb 

message: Does Hittite have this distinction in any meaningful way? The example inflection for nouns appears to be thematic from a PIE point of view, but I would expect the more archaic type (athematic) to be more widely represented in Hittite. CodeCat (talk) 22:33, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Athematic vs thematic inflection 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I have removed the section "Diffusion of satem features in Indo-European" because, as far as I can tell, the idea of *ḱu > šu in Hittite is out of date. Wittmann's 1969 article cited there appears to be about "Hieroglyphic Hittite", i.e. not Hittite at all but Luwian, which we still agree did have a sibilant reflex of *ḱ. But there is no mention of this change in Kloekhorst's very thorough 2007 thesis, and he cites four etyma which fail to show it where it would be expected (kunna- p.571, kūtt- / kutt- p.577, {LU}kuu̯an- / kun- p.585, kuu̯ašš- p.585). 4pq1injbok (talk) 16:26, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Diffusion of satem features" 

message: Middle Hittite redirects from “Hittite]”. If you don’t understand, you are free to explore the page. 2A02:C7E:4227:B600:B5DC:BEBB:BDDB:8A28 (talk) 12:37, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle Hittite