Hattic language

Hattic was spoken by the pre‐Hittite population of Central Anatolia of the late third to mid‐second millennium bce. Never recorded in writing by its native speakers, it was only preserved by the Hittites for cultic purposes. With the help of a few bilingual texts, the language has been only partially deciphered and many questions of lexicon and grammar remain. Both its syntactic alignment and its genetic affiliation are under debate: Hattic is classified as accusative, ergative, active, or combinations thereof, and it is considered an isolate, Northwest Caucasian, or a branch of Sino‐Caucasian.

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