14 Facts About Cuneiform Luwian

Cuneiform Luwian, sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family.

Luwic or Cuneiform Luwian, is one of three major sub-branches of Anatolian, alongside Hittite and Palaic.

Cuneiform Luwian was among the languages spoken during the 2nd and 1st millennia BC by groups in central and western Anatolia and northern Syria.

Long after the extinction of the Hittite language, Cuneiform Luwian continued to be spoken in the Neo-Hittite states of Syria, such as Milid and Carchemish, as well as in the central Anatolian kingdom of Tabal that flourished in the 8th century BC.

Cuneiform Luwian cited the distribution of a new type of wheel-made pottery, Red Slip Wares, as some of the best evidence for his theory.

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Therefore, several scholars shared the view that Luwian was spoken—to varying degrees—across a large portion of western Anatolia, including Troy, the Seha River Land, and the Mira-Kuwaliya kingdom with its core being the Maeander valley.

Cuneiform Luwian was split into many dialects, which were written in two different writing systems.

One of these was the Cuneiform Luwian which used the form of Old Babylonian cuneiform that had been adapted for the Hittite language.

The other was Hieroglyphic Cuneiform Luwian, which was written in a unique native hieroglyphic script.

Cuneiform Luwian is the corpus of Luwian texts attested in the tablet archives of Hattusa; it is essentially the same cuneiform writing system used in Hittite.

Cuneiform Luwian texts are written in several dialects, of which the most easily identifiable are Kizzuwatna Luwian, Istanuwa Luwian, and Empire Luwian.

Hieroglyphic Cuneiform Luwian is the corpus of Cuneiform Luwian texts written in a native script, known as Anatolian hieroglyphs.

Noteworthy phonological development in Luwian is rhotacism; in some cases, d, l, and n becomes r For example, *idi becomes iri and wala- ' becomes wara-.

Cuneiform Luwian has been deduced as one of the likely candidates for the language spoken by the Trojans.