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How to pronounce hittite in English?

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Type of dweller, indweller, inhabitant, denizen, habitant
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Type of anatolian language, anatolian
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Hittite texts from Anatolia include laws regulating the institution of slavery.
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Hittite, Sanskrit and Latin were once living languages of great civilisations.
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Hittite syntax exhibits one noteworthy feature typical of Anatolian languages.
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Hittite preserves some very archaic features lost in other Indo-European languages.
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Hittite sculptures sometimes have upturned toes, but never so exaggerated.
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Hittite and Egyptian chariots tended to have six spokes, Iron Age Assyrian ones eight.
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Hittite contains a number of archaisms that have disappeared from other IE languages.
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Hittite cuneiform is an adaptation of the Old Assyrian cuneiform of ca.
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Hittite morphology is simpler than other older Indo-European languages.
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  • Of or relating to the Hittite people or their language or culture
  • A member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC
  • The language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions
  • (Hittites) A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. ...
  • (Hittites) An Indo-European people who entered Mesopotamia c. 1750 b.c.e.; destroyed the Babylonian empire; swept away c. 1200 b.c.e. (p. 37)
  • (Hittites) Descendants of Heth.
  • (Hittites) Indo-European people who inhabited Anatolia from 1800 to 1200 BC. They created a powerful realm during the 14th century BC ruling over Syria and later Mitanni and became the fiercest competitor of Egypt in the struggle for domination over the Syro-Palestine territory. ...
  • (Hittites) Term for the people who lived in the lands of Asia Minor and Syria from circa 1900 B.C. to 1200 B.C.
  • (2010) (A retelling of The Illiad)