Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-22T06:53:33.402Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Linguistic Situation of the 2nd Millennium B.C. in Ancient Anatolia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Annelies Kammenhuber
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In detail, the following is the situation regarding the languages of ancient Asia Minor and Mesopotamia:

Non-Indo-European language

Apart from the Semitic languages and Egyptian, at least five isolated languages are ascribable to that period in which the Sumerians and Egyptians had already invented their script. All five languages are recorded in the so-called Akkadian cuneiform, a syllabic script which the Sumerians had developed from their picture-writing.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 107 , Issue 2 , April 1975 , pp. 116 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1975

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 For the bibliography see Handbuch der Orientalistik, Altkleinasiatische Sprachen, Leiden, 1969, 119 ff.Google Scholar; Kammenhuber, A., Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, XXIV, 1968, 55–123Google Scholar; Friedrich, J., Kammenhuber, A., Hethitisches Wörterbuch, 2nd ed., Heidelberg, 1975.Google Scholar

2 cf. also Hoffmann, K., “Das Kategoriensystem des indogermanischen Verbums”, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, XXVIII, 1970, 19–41.Google Scholar