Palaic language
Extinct Anatolian Indo-European language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Palaic is an extinct Indo-European language, attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites. Palaic, which was apparently spoken mainly in northern Anatolia, is generally considered to be one of four primary sub-divisions of the Anatolian languages, alongside Hittite (central Anatolia), Luwic (southern Anatolia) and Lydian (western Anatolia).
Palaic | |
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Region | Anatolia |
Ethnicity | Palaic peoples |
Extinct | around 1300 BCE |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | plq |
plq | |
Glottolog | pala1331 |
Its name in Hittite is palaumnili, or "of the people of Pala"; Pala was probably to the northwest of the Hittite core area, so in the northwest of present mainland Turkey. The region was overrun by the Kaskians in the 15th century BC, and the language likely went out of daily use at that time.