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academics obssessed with sacred and unquestionable indo-uralic theory

Thanks for your kind words! Maybe I'm the first that has said more than it is vaguely Luwian related... 👍

It does teach it yes!

I just find hieroglyphic luwian incrediby beautiful to look at. It's a script of art. Plus the grammar/morphology is neat!

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Wow, what a fantastic story you have! Great to hear that people are interested in the Hittites. I wish you well with your studies! Drop me an email: learnhittite at gmail dot com and I'll share with you Rieken and Jakubovich's first translation - it was distributed at a conference and I'm not sure it is easily available. Their translation isn't 100% finished though and I'm sure many will debate what they've come up with.

@@LearnHittite I will drop you an email. I really appreciate your response and I’m looking forward to the next video!

Thank you! I've lived in Poland for 11 years (on and off) but have come to accept I will always have a brummie accent when speaking Polish 😉 Pozdrawiam

@@LearnHittite also, indo-uralic video please, I'd adore it ❤️

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Wow thank you very much for your support!

@@LearnHittite Thank you very much for these addictive programs!!...

Yeah that's a tough one to answer. I suppose a lot depends on the timeline of Anatolian IE languages in the near east and their dispersion. If the Ebla archives really do show an Anatolian language in the region earlier than current popular models suggest then who knows. It seems to be debated amongst researchers about how proficient Hittite scribes were in Sumerian, I rather suppose they knew the language reasonably well so (instead of just knowing say sumerograms with specific use cases) I would expect influence in the Hittite texts we have recorded and would that not have some influence on the spoken a language at the time? at least amongst the elites. I've recently read "Sumerograms and Akkadograms in Hittite: Ideograms, Logograms, Allograms, or Heterograms?" by Kudrinski and Yakubovich, might be worth a read. Personally, I've always taken some issue with the idea that sumerograms and akkadograms would have been pronounced as the underlying Hittite word, that may have been true when Hittite grammar was attached to it but very often it's just the ideogram with zero little morphological change. I've always suspected the scribes would have known the original sonic value or approximations of it.

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Yeah I saw it too, pretty interesting. I've not read the work that the discussion was based on though but it's high on my list. Do you think that a video about all the potential proto languages to PIE would be interesting? I thought about doing one just on Proto-Indo-Uralic but maybe I could expand the scope

​@@LearnHittite Yes, that would be interesting. Thanks for the great work!

@@LearnHittite Yes that would be very interesting. Jackson Crawford and guests thought there was something to the study. The obvious but very speculative conclusion would be that if proto Indo Basque originated in Caucasus or Anatolia, and then split, then perhaps proto Basque was maybe a language that moved westwards from Anatolia with early European farmers and indo-Anatolian/Indo European split somewhere around or near Anatolia, before PIE moved up to become Kurgan culture.

@@1297wombat The problem with it moving with EEFs was that they moved West something like 8-5Ky BC, much much earlier than Yanamnaya.

Great question! I'm not sure there is an agreed upon answer to it though. I personally don't see any reason to think it wasn't an Anatolian language, probably derived from proto-Luwian, maybe even Kalasmaic, Palaic. Interestingly, researcher Kloekhorst, an Anatolian language expert who I mentioned in this video, published an article about 12 years ago where he said it was a precursor to Etruscan. No idea what he was basing that on or whether he still holds that opinion though. Isolate is also possible.

@@LearnHittite if some of the extant letters reveal that the Hittites had a conflict with Troy and used Ahhiyawa or Mycenaeans as mercenaries against them (if I heard that last audiobook correctly) ...can we draw a conclusion that there was a significant language or cultural difference btw Hittites and Trojans? Or simply a political one?

I have read the Kloekhorst 2022 article and the Beekes 2002 article on the matter. Beekes adduces 24 pieces of evidence that the Etruscans originate from Troy: • Herodotus' account. • The Etruscans were referred to as Pelasgians. (This alone is established with reference to several authors to connect the dots.) • Both were Τυρσηνός. • The Lemnos inscription. • Herodotus says that the people of Plakiê and Skylakê ("Skylake?" hehe. Σκυλάκη), two small places east of Cyzicus on the southern shore of the Sea of Marmara, spoke the same language as...well...our copy of Herodotus says Krêstôn, but Dionysios of Halicarnassus quotes Herodotus as saying Krotôn, that is, Cortona, Tuscany. Briquel 1984 convinced Beekes that Krotôn is the proper reading. • The Kumdanlı inscription, from Gondane (Isparta/Baris, west central Turkey), 2nd-3rd c. AD, line 4: "[Αὐρ. Ἀσκ]ληπιάδης Ἀλεξάνδρου [Θ]υρση[νός]" • The suffix -ānos (whence Attic -ēnos) in Τυρρηνός is ubiquitous in northwestern Asia Minor and much rarer elsewhere. • Steinbauer's (1999) identification of shared vocabulary between (IE Anatolian) Lydian and Etruscan. I can't see the original text at the moment, but there is a website (claimed to be) by Steinbauer mentioning Etruscan maχ=Lemnian mau "4" (note; maχ is more commonly suspected to mean 5) and two grammatical endings. One could, I guess, also E-mail Steinbauer about his current views on the matter. • Equating the Etruscan legendary hero Tarchon (Briquel 1991) with the storm-god Tarhunt of Asia Minor. • Hellanikos says that the Etruscans who came were led by Nanas/Nanos, a well-known Lallname of Anatolia, especially Lydia. • Versnel (1970) showed, to Beekes' satisfaction, that the triumph, its shout thriambe, and thus triumpe of the Etruscan god Tinia (=Dionysos) originates in a New Year's celebration of Asia Minor. • The double-axe (bipennis) labrús/dabrús shows up in Lydia and Etruria as a symbol of kingship. I might add, isn't it interesting how this sound must have been between an /l/ and a /d/? Odysseus=Ulysses, labúrinthos=dabúrinthos etc. • The Roman name Camillus is said by Varro to derive from Kadmilos/Kasmilos who is one of the Kabeiroi, and its initial stress corroborates that Camillus is of Etruscan origin. The Kabeiroi were chthonic gods worshipped in Imbros, Lemnos, Samothrace, and Thebes. Here Beekes also mentions hepatoscopy, that is using livers to scry. • The constant conception of the Etruscans as "strange" and "foreign" by both the Italians and Greeks. • Tuscany is in no way topographically a withdrawal area (that is, of a more ancient people). • The obvious break between Bronze Age Apennine and Proto-Villanovan cultures. • The 1200 crisis. • The Etruscans' ten saecula bring us back to an origin (of their state?) in or around the tenth century BCE. • Herodotus' mention of the famine. I think we've seen more about this famine since 2002. • The sea peoples T(w)r(w)š and Lukka. • Ceramics of the 13th century BCE show that the Mycenaeans knew the sea-route to Italy (or, I would say, that at least someone did). • Pliny says that the Etruscans conquered 300 cities from the Umbrians. I personally think that this point is HUGE. • Aeneas' friend Sergestus appears to be Lydian Srkastu-, Phrygian Surkastos. • Homer mentions two Pelasgian sons of Lêthos fighting on the Trojan side. The Etruscan leθe and its derivatives are very common in inscriptions. Now, there are two important facts to keep in mind: If Etruscan has an origin in Asia Minor then that doesn't mean that Etruscan derives singly, or even principally, from the region. I happen to believe that it does derive principally from there, or at least in league with the Trojan coast, but one could be looking at a native language of the Italian peninsula with a hefty helping of "Lydian Trojan" influence, much as in the case of English influenced by French. And also, it doesn't mean that the only, or prestige, or even majority language of Troy was Tyrrhenian. The Iliad, for instance, mentions the Trojan soldiers speaking many different languages. (If anyone is wondering: none if this is claiming shared ancestry between Etruscan and Indo-European Anatolian Lydian, but rather contact in antiquity.) Finally, it also wouldn't mean that Troy was necessarily their ultimate origin. For instance, the Etruscans could be originally from the Thessalian plain.

I've mainly used wikipedia for maps or tree diagrams as they are open source and it means I don't have to draw them myself. They are all checked and verified, I always draw or create myself the images which are innacurate or unavailable elsewhere. Obviously I can't just post maps and tables from other people's published work. All key information is found in the resource list in the video description. Kurdish language is only distantly linked to Hittite via its relationship as an Indo-European language.

Possibly Hattic and way back in the 1920's a few researchers thought that another IE language could be a substratum language to Hittite but that was when even Hittite as an IE language was debated.