Ancient languages in Anatolian Turkey

From: tgpedersen
Message: 13861
Date: 2002-06-17

> if you would like to learn about what is left from the early
> anatolian languages,
yes, please

>well there is almost nothing left because of the
> byzantine's byzantinization policy ( formerly greeks' grekization
> policy), nothing is left from frigian, hititian, urartu, luwian etc
> (well in fact armenians destroyed these brillant stone workers of
> urartu), the only clue you can find is among the turkish dialects
>but
> this will give information about the sound only.
> best regards


Has anyone done a study of the subject, and if yes, what are the
results?

Torsten