# Kassite cannot be classified from what survives: it is an unclassified language, probably an isolate, until a text is…

> Still possible: Kassite cannot be classified from what survives: it is an unclassified language, probably an isolate, until a text is found.

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# Kassite cannot be classified from what survives: it is an unclassified language, probably an isolate, until a text is…

Kassite cannot be classified from what survives: it is an unclassified language, probably an isolate, until a text is found.

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

## Where it stands

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

## What it predicts

- Each proposed affiliation, tested on the vocabulary with a null model, will fail.
- New Kassite words will continue to come only from Akkadian loanwords and names.

## What would rule it out

- A Kassite text or a longer bilingual vocabulary is found and allows a classification.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Kassite survives as one 48-entry vocabulary, 19 translated names, about 60 loanwords and about 200 name elements, with…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEEB4DK6R1W/kassite-survives-as-one-48-entry-vocabulary-19-translated)

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## The questions it answers

[What was the Kassite language, and can it be classified from a 48-entry vocabulary and a few hundred names?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/questions/QST0DEDWK5SV6E1/what-was-the-kassite-language-and-can-it-be-classified-from)

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