Evidence · Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives
Kassite survives as one 48-entry vocabulary, 19 translated names, about 60 loanwords and about 200 name elements, with…
Kassite survives as one 48-entry vocabulary, 19 translated names, about 60 loanwords and about 200 name elements, with no sentence.
What it means
Key questionWhat was the Kassite language, and can it be classified from a 48-entry vocabulary and a few hundred names?
5 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onKassite cannot be classified from what survives: it is an unclassified language, probably an isolate, until a text is…
Supports1 for, none against
Still possiblewas No evidence yet
Sources 3
Kassitenstudien 1: Die Sprache der Kassiten
SRCBalkan 1954
Kassites
SRCZadok 2013
The Language of the Kassites
SRCPinches 1917
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Kassite survives as one 48-entry vocabulary, 19 translated names, about 60 loanwords and about 200 name elements, with… [Evidence EVD0DEEB4DK6R1W]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEB4DK6R1W
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title = {Kassite survives as one 48-entry vocabulary, 19 translated names, about 60 loanwords and about 200 name elements, with…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEB4DK6R1W},
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