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Hattian language, non-Indo-European language of ancient Anatolia. The Hattian language appears as hattili ‘in Hattian’ in Hittite cuneiform texts. Called Proto-Hittite by some, Hattian was the language of the linguistic substratum inside the Halys River (now called the Kızıl River) bend and in more-northerly regions.
Hittite (natively: 𒌷𒉌𒅆𒇷, romanized: nešili / "the language of Neša", or nešumnili / "the language of the people of Neša"), also known as Nesite (Nešite/Neshite, Nessite), is an extinct Indo-European language that was spoken by the Hittites, a people of Bronze Age Anatolia who created an empire centred on Hattusa, as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.
However, since Hattian is the language of the cult during the Old Hit-tite period (ca. 1650–1450 BC),4 a deeper knowledge of Hattian is im-portant for our understanding of early Hittite religion. A very important step towards that goal is Soysal’s monograph on the Hattian lexicon (Hat-tischer Wortschatz in hethitischer Textüberlieferung.
This model fits the ‘victorious invaders’ hypothesis, but this time the Hattian speakers are the invaders and, since there are no other language communities that fit the profile, the Anatolian Indo-European speakers form the substratum.57 This would not only explain the Hattian cultural dominance in Hittite society without linguistic structural interference in Hittite, but also the death ...
Other articles where Hattian is discussed: Boğazköy: The ancient city: …the language of the early inhabitants of the “Land of Hatti,” a language still little understood and not belonging to any known family. Scholars call it Hattian to distinguish it from Hittite, the name of the Indo-European official language of the Hittite kingdom. Just as in other parts of the…
