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Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives5 key questions · 7 questions · 0 answered

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KeyCan anything of Gutian and Lullubian be recovered from names alone?

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KeyHow much of the Hattic corpus can be read, and how far can the bilinguals and quasi-bilinguals be extended?

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KeyWhat language family, if any, does Hattic belong to?

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Is the Hattic verb aligned actively, ergatively or accusatively, and what does each verbal prefix mark?

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KeyWhat was the Kassite language, and can it be classified from a 48-entry vocabulary and a few hundred names?

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Are the Indo-Iranian elements in Kassite names (šuriaš, Abirattaš, Buriaš) loans into Kassite or evidence of what Kassite was?

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KeyWhich Anatolian language is written on the Kalašma tablet, and can its recitation be translated?

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