Classics 590L - Hittite Language & Linguistics

An introduction to Hittite language, cuneiform, culture, and history, as well as its importance to Indo-European historical linguistics. The Hittites, a late Bronze Age superpower, bequeathed to us thousands of texts that provide wonderful insights into their (rather mad) world and language - the earliest-attested of the Indo-European tree that includes Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and English, among many others.