cm0002@suppo.fi to Science@mander.xyz · 14 days agoArchaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empirewww.popularmechanics.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down12cross-posted to: linguistics@mander.xyzscience@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·14 days agoIt’d be cool if it was related to basque
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 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.
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 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.
It’d be cool if it was related to basque
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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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.