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    Luwian (/ˈluːwiən/), sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European...
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  • The Luwians /ˈluːwiənz/ were an ancient people in Anatolia who spoke the Luwian language. During the Bronze Age, Luwians formed part of the population...
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    Hieroglyphic Luwian (luwili) is a variant of the Luwian language, recorded in official and royal seals and a small number of monumental inscriptions....
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    known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and the term Luwian hieroglyphs is used in English publications...
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    Indo-European languages. By the Late Bronze Age, Hittite had started losing ground to its close relative Luwian. It appears that in the 13th century BC, Luwian was...
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    hieroglyphic Luwian survived until the conquest of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms by Assyria, and alphabetic inscriptions in Anatolian languages are fragmentarily...
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    Iron Age or Late Luwian period. During the Bronze Age, the Luwians were under the control of the Hittites. They spoke the Luwian language, a close relative...
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  • was part of the Luwian language family. However, only a few words can be derived from Luwian roots, like maśara 'for the gods' (Luwian masan(i)-, 'god'...
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    Boustrophedon (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    original wooden type). The Luwian language had a version, Hieroglyphic Luwian, that is read in boustrophedon style (most of the language was written down in...
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  • derived from Luwian and thus Indo-European. Isaurian names containing clear Anatolian roots include Οαδας Oadas, Τροκονδας Trokondas (cf. Luwian Tarḫunt,...
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    Hittites (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    family; along with the closely related Luwian language, it is the oldest historically attested Indo-European language. The history of the Hittite civilization...
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    Crete (category Articles containing Cuneiform Luwian-language text)
    Its etymology is unknown. One proposal derives it from a hypothetical Luwian word *kursatta (compare kursawar 'island', kursattar 'cutting, sliver')...
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  •  Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation: Luwian, Lycian and Lydian. Netherlands, Brill, 2020. The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective...
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    Gyges of Lydia (category Articles containing Cuneiform Luwian-language text)
    evolved Hittite ḫuḫḫa- (𒄷𒄴𒄩), Luwian ḫūḫa- (𒄷𒌋𒄩) and huha- (𔕳𔓷‎), and Lycian xuga- (𐊜𐊒𐊄𐊀) in the Anatolian languages family, as well as Latin avus...
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    Hittite, the Luwian language does not contain loanwords from Hattic, indicating that it was initially spoken in western Anatolia. The Luwians inhabited a...
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    Cappadocia (category Articles containing Turkish-language text)
    Persian name is Katpatuka. It was proposed that Kat-patuka came from the Luwian language, meaning "Low Country". Subsequent research suggests that the adverb...
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    Tyana (category Articles containing Hieroglyphic Luwian-language text)
    Hittite Empire, and Tuwana (𔑢𔗬𔐤𔔂‎) in the Luwian language during the Syro-Hittite period. From the Luwian name Tuwana were derived the Neo-Assyrian Akkadian...
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    Bodrum (category Articles containing Hieroglyphic Luwian-language text)
    cognate with Luwian word "ha+ra/i-na-sà", which means fortress. If so, the city's ancient name was probably borrowed from Carian, a Luwic language native to...
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  • Tarḫuntašša (category Articles containing Hieroglyphic Luwian-language text)
    the ancient Luwian characters in this article correctly. Tarḫuntašša (Hittite: 𒀭𒅎𒋫𒀸𒊭 dIM-ta-aš-ša "City of Tarhunt"; Hieroglyphic Luwian: 𔖖𔓢𔕙𔑯𔗦...
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    probably falls outside the centum–satem division; for instance, the Luwian language indicates that all three dorsal consonant rows survived separately...
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  • BC. In the context of Luwian Studies, Luwian, however, is a toponym encompassing peoples of different ethnicity and languages. It is thus an abstract...
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    Name of Syria (category Articles containing Hieroglyphic Luwian-language text)
    interest, both among ancient writers and modern scholars. In early Hittite, Luwian, Cilician and Greek usage between the 9th century BC and 2nd century BC...
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  • certain that there was one single language used in the city at the time. One candidate language is Luwian, an Anatolian language which was widely spoken in Western...
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    Warpalawas II (category Articles containing Hieroglyphic Luwian-language text)
    Warpalawas II (Hieroglyphic Luwian: 𔗬𔖱𔕸𔓊𔗬𔗔‎, romanized: Warpallawas) was a Luwian king of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Tuwana in the region of Tabal...
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    Neo-Hittite, Syro-Hittite (in older literature), or Luwian-Aramean (in modern scholarly works) were Luwian and Aramean regional polities of the Iron Age, situated...
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  • I-mutation (category Articles containing German-language text)
    languages, it is referred to as affection.[citation needed] A type of i-mutation is also observed in Anatolian languages, including Hittite, Luwian,...
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    Miletus (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
    Minor from c. 1450 to 1100 BC. The 13th century BC saw the arrival of Luwian language speakers from south central Anatolia calling themselves the Carians...
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  • block containing Anatolian hieroglyphs, used to write the extinct Luwian language. The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process...
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    Tiwaz (stem: Tiwad-) was the Luwian Sun-god. He was among the most important gods of the Luwians. The name of the Proto-Anatolian Sun god can be reconstructed...
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    Carchemish (category Articles containing Hieroglyphic Luwian-language text)
    structures, temples, palaces, and numerous basalt statues and reliefs with Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions. Between 1956 and 1998, the whole site had been...
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