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The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors (Paperback)
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The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors (Paperback)
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In scholarly literature, there is much attention given to the
Hittites and the Mycenaean Greeks, but the Luwians of Western
Anatolia are notoriously neglected. Therefore, a study focussing on
the latter is desirable. In this book, the presently available
information on the western Luwians is assembled. This entails,
primarily, the epigraphic evidence in the form of Luwian
hieroglyphic inscriptions from the region and the historical
information which can be deduced from it, as well as historical
Hittite sources. As a prerequisite for the reconstruction of the
history of the western Luwians during the Middle and Late Bronze
Ages, the thorny question of the geography of their habitat needs
to be tackled. This can now be done in an adequate manner owing to
the most recent discoveries. Apart from Luwian hieroglyphic, the
Luwians of Western Anatolia also used cuneiform script. Based on
the linguistic data from both categories of evidence, a sketch of
their language is presented. It must be realized, though, that not
all inhabitants of Western Anatolia were speakers of the Luwian
language. Thus, it will be argued that their northern neighbours in
the Troad spoke a different language, of Thraco-Phrygian type.
Finally, the Luwians were not autochthonous in the region, but
preceded by speakers of a different Indo-European tongue, most
adequately defined as Old Indo-European in Hans Krahe’s terms.
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