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Luwian was the language of the Luwian people. It is ordered under the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European languages. It died around 600 BCE. Linguists believe that it had two laryngeal consonants inherited from Indo-European, because their cuneiform writing had two symbols that represent laryngeal sounds.

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  • Museum of Anatolian Civilizations057 kopie1

    Stele of Sultanhan, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.

  • Vase à piédestal néo-hittite, exposition Royaumes oubliés, Louvre 2019

    Basalt bowl with engraved inscription in Luwian hieroglyphics found in Babylon in the 1880s and now in the collection of the British Museum

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