With the discovery of Hittite and other languages such as Luwian, Lycian, Lydian and Palaic, it was shown that h2 and h3 didn't entirely disappear in all IE languages, remaining "h" in this Anatolian branch of the family. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Surely not Hittite or Luwian or their descendants. From Wordnik.com. [A little rant on the Etruscan Tree of Life motif] Reference
Also next year I might follow a class of Hieroglyphic Luwian. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptology and the modern world without time] Reference
Any loanwords from the Anatolian group would rather be from Luwian or Hittite. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan Dictionary Project Updates] Reference
The book goes on to mention that Hittite, Luwian, Palaic and Hurrian all show the same overall typological constraints. From Wordnik.com. [Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan] Reference
After the fall of the Hittite Empire, so-called hieroglyphic Hittite was used to write inscriptions in the Luwian language. From Wordnik.com. [b. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture] Reference
Also some propose that "Southern Anatolian" from whence Luwian was an early PIE dialect more affected by neighbouring Satem dialects than "Northern Anatolian". From Wordnik.com. [Diachrony of PIE] Reference
The temptation for Proto-Aegean speakers to forget the word on the islands and only borrow it later from Egyptian, Ugaritic or Luwian during the height of the Minoan civilization would be large, I would think. From Wordnik.com. [Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system] Reference
Things such as its Indo-European database, infected with Julius Pokorny's 1950s reconstructions which notoriously neglected to reconstruct laryngeals to properly account for reflexes in Anatolian languages like Hittite, Luwian and Lycian. From Wordnik.com. [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference
Things get more complicated if one ponders a scenario where budding Anatolian dialects are affected by the Satem wave in the north of the Anatolian area and later on provide the basis for satem-like results in Luwian by way of dialect mergers and such. From Wordnik.com. [Diachrony of PIE] Reference
The states that are called Neo-Hittite, or more recently Syro-Hittite, were Luwian, Aramaic and Phoenician-speaking political entities of Iron Age northern Syria and southern Anatolia that arose following the collapse of the Hittite Empire around 1180 BC. From Wordnik.com. [links for 2008-04-08 « Skid Roche] Reference
I reject the work of those who casually connect Minoans to Semitic by extracting inscribed words out of context or who believe that Etruscan is a language closely related to Turkish, Luwian, Abkhaz, Klingon, Esperanto or any other clearly absurd language. From Wordnik.com. ["Proto-Aegean" - What I mean and what I don't] Reference
Considering the Luwian stem tawa-, it makes more sense that it was Latin that borrowed the Etruscan word and that this verb is much older than Etruscan, probably stemming right back to the Proto-Aegean parent which I situate in the Aegean islands, Western Turkey and Cyprus. From Wordnik.com. [The Minoan word for 'eye'] Reference
In "The Hittites: People of a Thouand Gods", Johannes Lehmann quotes the Luwian-Hittite Tunnawi ritual (circa 1400-2000 BCE). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
The Carian language belonged to the Hittite - Luwian subfamily of Indo-European languages, and was related to Lycian and Lydian. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptology News] Reference
The official's name, for example, is Indo-European: no surprise, as previous investigations there had turned up names and writing in the Luwian language from the north. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
2 In the preface of Best/Woudhuizen, Lost languages from the Mediterranean (1989) (see link): "In Chapter Four a Lemnian and Etruscan text are placed in their proper Luwian language-family.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-06-01] Reference
In addition, fragments of monumental stelae - stone slabs created for religious or other commemorative purposes - carved in Luwian (an extinct language once spoken in what is now Turkey) hieroglyphic script were found. From Wordnik.com. [University of Toronto -- News@UofT] Reference
A second thing is clear: as traces of later occupation are very scarce, despite the fact that both Tepe Düzen and Sagalassos formed one single site connected by a common acropolis and necropolis, Tepe Düzen clearly was one of the major Early Iron Age Pisidian settlements and probably the only one, where the indigenous Pisidian culture, most likely originating from a continuity of Luwian culture, mixed with Greek elements spreading inland from coastal Pamphylia in the south and from the strongly Hellenized Lycia in the southwest, can be examined in all potential aspects. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Tepe Duzen Report 3] Reference
The official’s name, for example, is Indo-European: no surprise, as previous investigations there had turned up names and writing in the Luwian language from the north. From Wordnik.com. [Found: An Ancient Monument to the Soul] Reference
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