# The editors found features that set the Kalašma text apart from Luwian and judged it closer to Luwian than to Palaic…

> The editors found features that set the Kalašma text apart from Luwian and judged it closer to Luwian than to Palaic, despite Kalašma's location near Pala.

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# The editors found features that set the Kalašma text apart from Luwian and judged it closer to Luwian than to Palaic…

The editors found features that set the Kalašma text apart from Luwian and judged it closer to Luwian than to Palaic, despite Kalašma's location near Pala.

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## What it means

Key question[Which Anatolian language is written on the Kalašma tablet, and can its recitation be translated?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/questions/QST0DEDWKB75KT7/which-anatolian-language-is-written-on-the-kalasma-tablet)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[The recitation is a local dialect of Luwian or Palaic, not a separate language.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/answers/ANS0DEDZ9XRA0B8/the-recitation-is-a-local-dialect-of-luwian-or-palaic-not-a)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Sources 2

[Eine neue Sprache im Hethiterreich: Der Fund der Kalašma-Tafel (Bo 2023/12 = KBo 71.145)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKC20ZP70/eine-neue-sprache-im-hethiterreich-der-fund-der-kalasma)

Rieken et al. 2024

SRC

[New Indo-European Language Discovered (press release, Universität Würzburg, 21 September 2023)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKNR46FZV/new-indo-european-language-discovered-press-release)

Würzburg 2023

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The editors found features that set the Kalašma text apart from Luwian and judged it closer to Luwian than to Palaic… [Evidence EVD0DEEB6FKNYN6]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEB6FKNYN6
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