Originating from Nesa, they conquered Hattusa in the 18th century BC, imposing themselves over Hattian and Hurrian speaking populations ( Hurrian was a Language Isolate and Hattian a Northwest Caucasian language ).

Archaeological expeditions have discovered in Hattusa entire sets of royal archives in cuneiform tablets, written either in Akkadian, the diplomatic language of the time, or in the various dialects of the Hittite confederation.

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

Texts in the Hurrian language have been found at Hattusa, Ugarit ( Ras Shamra ), as well as one of the longest of the Amarna letters, written by King Tushratta of Mitanni to Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Hattic was spoken in Anatolia ( Turkey ), in the area around ancient Hattusa ( modern Boğazköy ), until about 1800 BC, when it was replaced by the Indo-European Hittite language.

* Pala, the region in Anatolia during the Bronze Age which spoke the Palaic language ; it was to the northwest of Hattusa on the other side of Mount Asharpaya

In 1906, at Hattusa ( modern Boğazkale, about 200 km east of Ankara ) a German expedition found the archives of the Hittite kings in cuneiform, but in an unknown language.

Hittite ( natively " the language of Neša ") a. k. a. Nesite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, an Indo-European people who created an empire centred on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ( Asia Minor ).

It appears that in the 13th century BC Luwian was the most widely spoken language in the Hittite capital Hattusa.

Knudtzon was shown definitively to have been correct when a large quantity of tablets written in the familiar Akkadian cuneiform script but in an unknown language was discovered by Hugo Winckler at the modern village of Boğazköy, the former site of Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire.

The heartland of this oldest attested language of Anatolia, before the arrival of Hittite language speakers, ranged from Hattusa ( which they called " Hattus ") northward to Nerik.

Later, after Sayce had turned his attention to Egyptology, archives were discovered at Hattusa that unlocked the language spoken there.

Palaic is an extinct Indo-European language, attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites.

He was succeeded by his son, Anitta, who is best known for conquering Hattusa, the future Hittite capital, and memorializing his achievement using the Hittite language.

In 1963, he published an article, " Les deux langues des inscriptions crétoises en linéaire A " (" The two languages of Cretan inscriptions in Linear A "), suggesting that the language of the Hagia Triada tablets was Greek but that the rest of the Linear A corpus was in Hittite-Luwian.

Most scholars believe it was used for a native Cypriot language ( Eteocypriot ) that survived until the 4th century BC, but the actual proofs for this are scant, as the tablets still have not been completely deciphered.

Two of the tablets are inscribed in the Etruscan language, the third in Phoenician.

The site is most famous for the Ebla tablets, an archive of about 20, 000 cuneiform tablets found there, dated from around 2250 BC, written in Sumerian script to record the Eblaite language — a previously unknown language that is now the earliest attested Semitic language after the closely related Akkadian.

About 80 % of the tablets are written using the usual Sumerian combination of logograms and phonetic signs, while the others exhibited an innovative, purely phonetic representation using Sumerian cuneiform of a previously unknown Semitic language, which was called Eblaite.

Known Amorites ( mostly those of Mari ) wrote in a dialect of Akkadian found on tablets at Mari dating from 1800 – 1750 BC ; since the language shows many northwest Semitic forms and constructions, the Amorite language was presumably a northwest Semitic dialect.

Churchward claimed that " more than fifty years ago ," while he was a soldier in India, he befriended a high-ranking temple priest who showed him a set of ancient " sunburnt " clay tablets, supposedly in a long lost " Naga-Maya language " which only two other people in India could read.

In formulaic, often legalistic, language the tablets appeal to the deity, Sulis, to punish the known or unknown perpetrators of the crime until reparation be made.

Although scholars can draw from a large corpus of literature, some tablets are broken, or in the case of literary texts where there may be many copies, the language and grammar are arcane.

Rafinesque claimed he had obtained wooden tablets engraved and painted with indigenous pictographs, together with a transcription in the Lenape language, from which he produced an English translation of the tablets ' contents.

However, a couple of curse tablets found in the baths at Bath may be in this language.

The tablets remained long undeciphered, and every conceivable language was suggested for them, until Michael Ventris deciphered the script in 1952 and by a preponderance of evidence proved the language to be an early form of Greek.

These letters, consisting of cuneiform tablets mostly written in Akkadian – the regional language of diplomacy for this period – were first discovered in around 1887 by local Egyptians who secretly dug most of them from the ruined city ( they were originally stored in an ancient building archaeologists have since called the Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh ) and then sold them on the antiquities market.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

It was a difficult and ambiguous kind of negotiation, even though the rancher was said to be expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their language.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

The epic language was not entirely the servant of the poet ; ;

Dr. Hilprecht was uncertain as to the language used by the ancient priest in his dream.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

So, too, was the insistence on the relativity of the external world, and the ideas that language and things perceived by consciousness were poor substitutes indeed for immediate perception by pure, indwelling spirit: the opposition of pure consciousness to ratiocinating consciousness.

the question was too wide for the sparse English language.

In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike studying the flora and fauna of those places.

( This contrasted with Malinowski's functionalism, and was quite different from the later French structuralism, which examined the conceptual structures in language and symbolism.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

In doing so, Greenberg sought to emphasize the fact that Afroasiatic was the only language family that was represented transcontinentally, in both Africa and Asia.

Estimates of the date at which the Proto-Afroasiatic language was spoken vary widely.

During the 1960s the use of manual sign language grew greatly, but it was not until the 1980s that AAC began to emerge as an area in its own right.

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.