Kanišite Hittite: the earliest attested record of Indo-European
In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst discusses the ethno-linguistic make-up of Kaniš (Central Anatolia, modern-day Kültepe), the most important Anatolian mercantile centre during the kārum-period (ca. 1970-1710 BCE), when Assyrian merchants dominated the trade in Anatolia. Especially by analysing th...
| Published in: | Handbook of Oriental Studies |
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| Subtitles: | The earliest attested record of Indo-European |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2019]
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Handbook of Oriental Studies (Volume 132)
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| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Kloekhorst, Alwin, 1978-, Handbook of Oriental studies, Kanišite Hittite : the earliest attested record of Indo-European] (2020) (Yakubovich, Ilya)
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| Series/Journal: | Handbook of Oriental Studies The Near and Middle East
Volume 132 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kanesch
/ Hittite language
/ Dialect
/ Onomastics
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| Further subjects: | B
Hittite language
Dialects (Turkey) (Kanesh (Extinct city))
B Turkey (Kanesh (Extinct city)) B Hittite |
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| Summary: | In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst discusses the ethno-linguistic make-up of Kaniš (Central Anatolia, modern-day Kültepe), the most important Anatolian mercantile centre during the kārum-period (ca. 1970-1710 BCE), when Assyrian merchants dominated the trade in Anatolia. Especially by analysing the personal names of local individuals attested in Old Assyrian documents from Kaniš, Alwin Kloekhorst demonstrates that the main language spoken there was a dialect of Hittite that was closely related to but nevertheless distinct from the Hittite language as spoken in the later Hittite Kingdom. This book offers a full account of all onomastic material and other linguistic data of Kanišite Hittite, which constitute the oldest attested record of any Indo-European language. "The achievement of Kloekhorst's study is that it advances the case for classifying the local language as a predecessor of Hittite... the present state of knowledge as presented by Kloekhorst is a huge step forward and he is to be congratulated with this important milestone in Old Assyrian and Hittite studies." -J.J. de Ridder, BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS LXXVII 3-4 (2020) |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004382100 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004382107 |