# Kemal Balkan · Person

> Turkish Assyriologist whose Kassitenstudien 1 (1954) collected the Kassite language. In Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform…

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[Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages)[People](https://mysteriesdept.com/people)Kemal Balkan

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# Kemal Balkan

Turkish Assyriologist whose Kassitenstudien 1 (1954) collected the Kassite language **1920–1992.**

[Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages)[1 event][1 source]

Kemal Balkan is turkish Assyriologist (1920-1992) at Ankara whose 1954 study remains the standard collection of Kassite words and names. (1920–1992), and appears in the record of Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives as turkish Assyriologist whose Kassitenstudien 1 (1954) collected the Kassite language.

One event on the site involves Balkan: Kemal Balkan collects everything known of the Kassite language (1954).

One question rest in part on what Balkan did or said, among them “What was the Kassite language, and can it be classified from a 48-entry vocabulary and a few hundred names?”, which stands open: 5 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

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

Turkish Assyriologist whose Kassitenstudien 1 (1954) collected the Kassite language · 1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages)

[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)Open: 5 answers, none ahead

## What Kemal Balkan did 1

1954[Kemal Balkan collects everything known of the Kassite language](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/events/EVT0DEDSTZH6S90/kemal-balkan-collects-everything-known-of-the-kassite)

## Sources 1

[Kassitenstudien 1: Die Sprache der Kassiten](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDM9H689GS/kassitenstudien-1-die-sprache-der-kassiten)

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1920

Died

1992

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Assyriologist, Kassite language

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Turkish Assyriologist (1920-1992) at Ankara whose 1954 study remains the standard collection of Kassite words and names.

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