Proto-Anatolian

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Proto-Anatolian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European languages, including Hittite and Luwian, spoken in ancient Anatolia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Proto-Anatolian canonical 2
Proto-Anatolian language 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
proto-language
reconstructed language
ancestorOf Carian
Hittite (Nesite)
surface form: Hittite

Cuneiform Luwian
surface form: Luwian

Lycian
Lydian
Palaic
Pisidian
Sidetic
attestedAs reconstructed
branchOf Anatolian languages
considered one of the earliest-splitting Indo-European branches
descendsFrom Proto-Indo-European
evidenceType indirect
hasAlternativeName Common Anatolian
Pre-Hittite Anatolian
hasGrammaticalCategory animate gender
case
inanimate gender
number
person
tense-aspect-mood
hasLexicalFeature archaic Indo-European vocabulary
hasMorphologicalFeature simplified verbal system compared to Proto-Indo-European
hasPhonologicalFeature laryngeal consonants preserved as consonants or vowels
reduced case endings compared to Proto-Indo-European
influenced cuneiform Hittite orthographic conventions
languageBranch Anatolian
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European
reconstructedBy comparative method
reconstructedFrom Hittite data
Luwian data
Lycian data
Lydian data
Palaic data
reconstructionStatus partial
region ancient Anatolia
sharesFeatureWith laryngeal consonants
split-ergative alignment tendencies
two-gender system
spokenIn Anatolia
spokenOnContinent Asia
status extinct
studiedInField Indo-European studies
historical linguistics
subdivisionOf Proto-Indo-European
timeDepth 3rd millennium BCE
writingSystem unwritten

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Indo-European hasDescendant Proto-Anatolian
Palaic hasAncestor Proto-Anatolian
Carian language hasAncestor Proto-Anatolian
this entity surface form: Proto-Anatolian language