Re: Goliath and Uriah the Hittite as IE
From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 463
Date: 1999-12-07
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Mark wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">>so far as I've read (most recently,
Emmett L. Bennett in Daniels and >Bright's <I>The World's Writing Systems</I>
(Oxford, 1996), Linear A remains a >huge mystery. Perhaps I've not heard the
good news yet.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">If you're interested in some more
information about possible verb inflections and case endings, do have a look at:
Margalit Finkelberg: Minoan Inscriptions on Libation Vessels, Minos25, 1990.
There is very little material in Lin.A to look for these grammatical phenomena
(most are just accounting), the only sentence-like structures there are may
be found on the libation tables (and most of them are truncated).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Hittite was written either cuneiform (most
of the material), and shot with a lot of Sumerograms so that even if we
understand what they wrote about we often don't learn the Hittite word for
things (like English heavily filled with Latin). Sometimes scholars guess words
from the rest of suffixes the Hittites used to attach to Sumerograms. The
so-called Hittite Hieroglyphs are now taken to be Luvian texts (although there
is also some Luvian in the corpus of cuneiform Hittite texts, e.g. in magical
incantations etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Greetings</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Sabine</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>