Hittite
Extinct languageLanguage Information
Hittite was spoken in ancient Anatolia (central Turkey). It is extinct.
Hittite is the oldest recorded Indo-European language. It was the language of the Hittite Empire, whose capital, Hattusa, lay near modern Boğazkale, Turkey, and it was written in cuneiform on clay tablets from about the 17th to the 12th century B.C. The Czech scholar Bedřich Hrozný deciphered it in 1915, proving that it was Indo-European.
Hittite is the oldest recorded Indo-European language. It was the language of the Hittite Empire, whose capital, Hattusa, lay near modern Boğazkale, Turkey, and it was written in cuneiform on clay tablets from about the 17th to the 12th century B.C. The Czech scholar Bedřich Hrozný deciphered it in 1915, proving that it was Indo-European.
- Language Family
- Indo-European
- Subgroup
- Anatolian