Re: [tied] Re: Hittites and others

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 10481
Date: 2001-10-20

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:04:13 -0300, "João S. Lopes Filho"
<jodan99@...> wrote:

>This points to a question: was Hittite written records representative of
>popular language? Is it possible that the "elite" spoke a
>Sumerian-influenced language while the people spoke a more genuine Hittite
>one? Like the Normand elite in England?

Jeez. There is NOTHING Sumerian-influenced about written Hittite.