cm0002@suppo.fi to Science@mander.xyz · 9 days agoArchaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empirewww.popularmechanics.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up128cross-posted to: linguistics@mander.xyzscience@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agoIt’d be cool if it was related to basque
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoIt isn’t. The article said it’s in the Indo-European family and related to a previously-known language in what is modern-day Turkey.
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoAs Drusas said, it’s an Indo-European language. From a rather distant branch of the family, called Anatolian: The main language of the tablet (Hittite) is also Anatolian.
It’d be cool if it was related to basque
This was exactly my first thought!
It isn’t. The article said it’s in the Indo-European family and related to a previously-known language in what is modern-day Turkey.
As Drusas said, it’s an Indo-European language. From a rather distant branch of the family, called Anatolian:
The main language of the tablet (Hittite) is also Anatolian.
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