Despite the use of " Hatti ", the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and spoke a non-Indo-European language known as Hattic.

The Hattians spoke Hattic, a non-Indo-European language of uncertain affiliation.

The Hattians eventually merged with, or were replaced by, the Hittites, who spoke the Indo-European Hittite language.

The population of the Indo-European speaking Hittite Empire in Anatolia to a large part consisted of Hurrians and Hattians, and there is significant Hurrian influence in Hittite mythology.

It is a matter of considerable scholarly debate whether the biblical " Hittites " signified any or all of: 1 ) the original Hattians ; 2 ) their Indo-European conquerors ( Nesili ), who retained the name " Hatti " for Central Anatolia, and are today referred to as the " Hittites " ( the subject of this article ); or 3 ) a Canaanite group who may or may not have been related to either or both of the Anatolian groups, and who also may or may not be identical with the later Neo-Hittite ( Luwian ) polities.

From then on, little is heard of the Hattians, but the Hittites kept the name.

The use of the word " Proto-Hittite " to refer to Hattians is inaccurate.

For example E. A. Speiser, referring to " the children of Heth " in the Book of Genesis writes " For reasons of both history and geography, it is most unlikely that this group name has any direct connection either with the Hattians of Anatolia or with their ' Hittite ' successors.

The sacred bull of the Hattians, whose elaborate standards were found at Alaca Höyük alongside those of the sacred stag, survived in the Hurrian and Hittite mythologies as Seri and Hurri ( Day and Night )— the bulls who carried the weather god Teshub on their backs or in his chariot, and grazed on the ruins of cities.

From the 21st Century BC through to the late 18th Century BC, Assyria controlled colonies in Anatolia, and the Hurrians, like the Hattians, adopted the Assyrian Akkadian cuneiform script for their own language about 2000 BCE.

The records show a gradual rise to power of the Anatolian language speakers over the native Hattians, until at last the kingship became an Anatolian privilege.

Hattic was the language of the Hattians, the local inhabitants of the land of Hatti before being absorbed or displaced by the Hittites.

Hattic was a non-Indo-European agglutinative language spoken by the Hattians in Asia Minor between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia BC.

As the Hattians did not have a written language, scholars rely on indirect sources or statements by other peoples.

Syria was dominated by many peoples in its history, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Canaanites, Arameans, Hattians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans, and French.

Scholars have long assumed that the predominant population of the region of Anatolia " in the third millennium was an indigenous pre-Indo-European group called the Hattians.

Anatolia has been inhabited by many peoples throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Mitanni, Scythians, Cimmerians, Urartians, Carians, Commagene, Cilicians, Arameans, Kaskians, Mushki, Palaic, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Colchians, Iberians, Georgians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks, and Ottomans.

Anatolia has had many civilizations throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Luwians, Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Urartians, Cimmerians, Carians, Scythians, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Georgians, Circassians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks and Ottomans.

Scholars generally believe the earliest indigenous populations of Anatolia were the Hattians and Hurrians.

These " proto-Canaanites " were in regular contact with the other peoples to their south such as Egypt, and to the north Asia Minor ( Hurrians, Hattians, Hittites, Luwians ) and Mesopotamia ( Sumer, Akkad, Assyria ), a trend that continued through the Iron Age.

The Hittites conquered Hattus from Kanesh to its south, and thence eventually absorbed or replaced the Hattic speakers ( Hattians ); but they retained the name Hatti for the region.

The Hittites were an Indo-European people, ethnically and linguistically distinct from the Hattians.

The Hattians were organised in feudal city-states and small kingdoms or principalities.

Some times scholars were thinking that Hattians and Hittites had perhaps different personal characteristics, though most Anatolian Kingdoms in the Bronze Age were multi-cultural.

It can not be proven that the Hattians were different in type from the other Anatolians, because we don't know how the ' other ' peoples looked like, and we even do not know how the Hattians looked like.

He spoke not only Ubykh, but also the Hakuchi dialect of Adyghe, allowing some comparative work to be done between these two members of the Northwest Caucasian family.

The Puyallup tribe originally spoke the Puyallup Nisqually language of the Salishan family of languages spoken among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples.

The mines were worked by prisoners of war from southwest Asia who presumably spoke a Northwest Semitic language, such as the Canaanite that was ancestral to Phoenician and Hebrew.

The Ubykh are a group who spoke the Northwest Caucasian Ubykh language, until other local languages displaced it and its last speaker died in 1992.

At the time the Northwest Territories were brought under the jurisdiction of the Government of Canada, 47 % of the non-Native population spoke French.

Originally, at least some of the Caucasian Albanians probably spoke Lezgic languages close to those found in modern Daghestan ; overall, though, as many as 26 different languages may have been spoken in Caucasian Albania.

The original population were Paleo-Caucasians and spoke Caucasian languages like the Caucasian Albanians.

He does not include the Maikop culture among those that he considers to be IE-speaking, presuming instead that they spoke a Caucasian language.

" This vignette received some criticism, as the Caucasian " Akeem " delivered a promo in which he spoke with an extremely stereotypical black accent and mockingly danced while an African ritual took place in the background.

* 17th century – The French Prophets: The Camisards also spoke sometimes in languages that were unknown: " Several persons of both Sexes ," James Du Bois of Montpellier recalled, " I have heard in their Extasies pronounce certain words, which seem'd to the Standers-by, to be some Foreign Language.

It was said in 1703 that the people of Shetland generally spoke English, but that " many among them retain the ancient Danish Language "; while in 1750 Orkney-born James Mackenzie wrote that Norn was not yet entirely extinct, being " retained by old people ", who still spoke it among each other.

One analysis shows that the majority were, however, Hurrian ( a non Semitic group from Asia Minor who spoke a Language Isolate ), though there were a number of Semites and even some Kassite and Luwian adventurers amongst their number.

During the third millennium BC, a close cultural symbiosis developed between the Sumerians ( who spoke a Language Isolate ) and the Semitic Akkadian speakers, which included widespread bilingualism.

The Hurrians ( cuneiform ) were an ancient people, who spoke a Language Isolate of the Ancient Near East, living in Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age.

The Hurrians spoke an ergative-agglutinative language, conventionally called Hurrian, ( unrelated to neighbouring Semitic or Indo-European languages ), which may have been a Language Isolate.

Language invention had always been tightly connected to the mythology that Tolkien developed, as he found that a language could not be complete without the history of the people who spoke it, just as these people could never be fully realistic if imagined only through the English language and as speaking English.

76. 9 % spoke English, 15. 1 % Spanish, 4. 2 % Other Indo-European Language and 2. 6 % Asian and Pacific Islander Languages as their first language.

*" When I was a child I spoke as a child ": Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language Policy by Danilo Manarpaac.

Gates spoke to MPs including David Amess MP, Robert Buckland MP, and Steve Brine MP at the Palace of Westminster as part of a briefing on communication disability hosted by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Centre for Social Justice.

Wijngaarden spoke at the IFIP Working Conference on Formal Language Description Languages held in Baden bei Wien, Austria.

* Language disorders ( aphasia ): on some occasions she could not speak at all, sometimes she spoke only English, or only French, or Italian.

" When I was a child I spoke as a child ": Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language Policy.

Throughout Eastern Europe, Jews spoke Yiddish, a language closely related to German, and Jewish intellectuals often took up German as " The Language of Culture ".

Grecìa Salentina ( Salentinian Greece ) is an area in the peninsula of Salento in southern Italy, near the town of Lecce which is inhabited by the Griko people, an ethnic Greek minority living in southern Italy who traditionally spoke a Greek Language dialect also called Griko.

The Winnemem Wintu traditionally spoke the North Eastern Dialect of the Northern Wintun Language, a member of the Wintuan languages, and a member of the larger Penuatian language " stock ".