The Luwian Language

Abstract

The Luwian language belongs to the Luwic subgroup of the Indo-European Anatolian languages and is a close relative of Hittite. It is recorded in two scripts: an adaptation of Mesopotamian cuneiform and Anatolian hieroglyphs. The goal of this paper is to provide a concise description of the Luwian language. It contains both information on its structure, with an emphasis on phonology and morphology, and sociolinguistic data. The grammatical description is predominantly synchronic, but historical and comparative information is occasionally introduced if it has a potential to clarify the synchronic state of affairs.

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“…9For the sporadic disappearance of the Luwian lenis “laryngeal” before /u/ and /w/ in cuneiform texts, cf. Yakubovich 2015: § 5.2.1.…”

“…4Here and below, the Luwian transcription generally follows the conventions proposed in Yakubovich 2015 and adopted, with some modifications, by the eDiAna project ().…”