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Palaic is an extinct Indo-European language, attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites.
Its name in Hittite is palaumnili, or of the people of Pala; Pala was probably to the northwest of the Hittite core area,
so in the northwest of present mainland Turkey. That region was overrun by the Kaskas in the 15th century BC, and the language
likely went out of daily use at that time. The entire corpus of Palaic spans only CTH 751-754 in Emmanuel Laroche's catalog
of Hittite texts; in addition Hittite texts elsewhere cite passages in Palaic in reference to the god Zaparwa. In particular,
CTH 750, a festival in Hittite for Ziparwa and associated deities, includes passages stating, The Old Woman speaks the words
of the bread in Palaic, or alternately the words of the meal, though no Palaic passages are quoted. The Palaic-language texts
are all from a religious context, with ritual and mythological content. In addition to Zaparwa, the Palaumnili-speakers worshipped
a sky god Tiyaz. Palaic is a fairly typical specimen of Indo-European. Old Hittite has the genitive singular suffix -as as
of circa 1600 BC (compare Proto-Indo-European *-os); where Cuneiform Luwian instead uses the -ssa adjectival suffix. Palaic,
on the northern border of both, like later Hieroglyphic Luwian has both an -as genitive and an -asa adjectival suffix. Palaic
also shows the same gender distinction as seen in Hittite, i.e. animate vs. inanimate; and has similar pronoun forms. Therefore
Palaic is thought to belong to the Anatolian languages, although whether as a sister language to Old Hittite or Cuneiform
Luwian is unknown. References: 32x28px Ancient Near East portal |
Names (more)[de] Palaische Sprache[el] Παλαϊκή γλώσσα [en] Palaic language [fa] زبان پالائی [fi] Palaijin kieli [fr] Palaïte [gl] Lingua palaíta [it] Lingua palaica [ko] 팔라어 [mk] Палајски јазик [nl] Palaïsch [no] Palaisk [pl] Język palajski [ru] Палайский язык [sl] Palajščina [sv] Palaiska [th] ภาษาปาลา [uk] Палайська мова |
Language type : Ancient
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : plqLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/plqhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:plq More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: plqFreebase ISO 639-3 : plq GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |