The Elements of Hittite

This textbook teaches Hittite grammar in stages, using genuine material throughout, and is the first to introduce the cuneiform script.

Theo van den Hout (Author)

9780521115643, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 October 2011

222 pages, 13 b/w illus. 1 map 123 tables
24.9 x 17.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.56 kg

Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This exciting and accessible introductory course, which can be used in both trimester and semester systems, offers in ten lessons a comprehensive introduction to the grammar of the Hittite language with ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform. It includes a separate section of paradigms, a grammatical index, as well as a list of every cuneiform sign used in the book. A full glossary can be found at the back. The book has been designed so that the cuneiform is not essential and can be left out of any course if so desired. The introduction provides the necessary cultural and historical background, with suggestions for further reading, and explains the principles of the cuneiform writing system.

Introduction
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
Appendix 1. Paradigms
Appendix 2. Sources of exercise material
Appendix 3. Index of syntax and phonological phenomena
Appendix 4. Cuneiform sign list
Appendix 5. Glossary.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK], Archaeology by period / region [HDD], Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Historical & comparative linguistics [CFF]