# Piotr Michalowski 2017: Ancient Near Eastern and European Isolates

> Piotr Michalowski, 2017. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. In Lyle Campbell (ed.), Language Isolates, Routledge, pp. 19-58. A survey of the…

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# Ancient Near Eastern and European Isolates

Piotr Michalowski, 2017.

**Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives** Chapterdoi: **[10.4324/9781315750026-2](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315750026-2)** 0

## What it's used for here

In Lyle Campbell (ed.), Language Isolates, Routledge, pp. 19-58. A survey of the isolates of the cuneiform record (Sumerian, Hattic, Kassite, Gutian, Hurro-Urartian and others) and how unevenly they are documented; counts close to 360 Hattic texts from Hattusa and Sapinuwa. Used for the framing of the whole mystery.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[Language isolate](https://mysteriesdept.com/concepts/CPT0DEEBNN2HBN9/language-isolate)

CPT

[A century of comparison since Forrer isolated Hattic in 1919 has produced no accepted correspondence set with any…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEE9PYSWA8B/a-century-of-comparison-since-forrer-isolated-hattic-in-1919)

Evidence

EVD

[Gutian is known from about twenty royal names and one divine name, and Lullubian from personal names only.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEEBEF049W8/gutian-is-known-from-about-twenty-royal-names-and-one-divine)

Evidence

EVD

[The Hittite capital is abandoned and its tablet archives, with the Hattic texts, are buried](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/events/EVT0DEDSQ3KFRAQ/the-hittite-capital-is-abandoned-and-its-tablet-archives)

EVT

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

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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Piotr Michalowski (2017). Ancient Near Eastern and European Isolates. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315750026-2
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