# Hattic is an isolate for the present corpus: no relationship can be demonstrated from about a hundred secure words…

> Still possible: Hattic is an isolate for the present corpus: no relationship can be demonstrated from about a hundred secure words, and progress must…

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Answer · Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives

# Hattic is an isolate for the present corpus: no relationship can be demonstrated from about a hundred secure words…

Hattic is an isolate for the present corpus: no relationship can be demonstrated from about a hundred secure words, and progress must come from the bilinguals.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Each candidate family, tested on the secure Hattic lexicon with a null model, will show no excess of matches.
- New word meanings will continue to come from bilinguals and quasi-bilinguals rather than from external comparison.

## What would rule it out

- A set of regular sound correspondences between secure Hattic words and any family is established and survives a held-out test on words found later.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[A century of comparison since Forrer isolated Hattic in 1919 has produced no accepted correspondence set with any…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEE9PYSWA8B/a-century-of-comparison-since-forrer-isolated-hattic-in-1919)

Supported

FOR

[New Hattic word meanings keep coming from bilinguals and quasi-bilinguals, not from external comparison.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEE9VFJNN9Y/new-hattic-word-meanings-keep-coming-from-bilinguals-and)

Supported

FOR

## The questions it answers

[What language family, if any, does Hattic belong to?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/questions/QST0DEDWJQ8EC4K/what-language-family-if-any-does-hattic-belong-to)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Hattic is an isolate for the present corpus: no relationship can be demonstrated from about a hundred secure words… [Answer ANS0DEDY8X06GF7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEDY8X06GF7
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