Look, there's no reason to get all PeeCee just because Germany started both world wars, carried out the Holocaust, has no sense of humor, and, wait, what?
Posted on 10/18/2020 11:33:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths, and summoning rituals, using a language that researchers were only able to decipher around 100 years ago. Now, the Hittites' texts, which were written in cuneiform, are being made fully accessible online. The collection will be based on around 30,000 documents, most of which are written in the Hittite language, but other languages such as Luwian and Palaic will also be represented to a lesser extent. Participating in the joint project are researchers from the universities of Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg, as well as of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. The Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) project will receive about EUR 520,000 in funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) over the next three years...Hittite is particularly interesting, as it is the oldest Indo-Germanic language"Many cultures have lost their written material, as some were written on papyrus, for example, and have not survived," said Professor Doris Prechel. The clay tablets, on the other hand, were preserved by the firing process and now provide us with information about all areas of human life in the second millennium BC. The Hittite culture is also particularly interesting from a historical point of view, because Hittite is the oldest known Indo-Germanic language. Today, Indo-Germanic languages are found all over the world and make up the family of languages that has more speakers than any other.
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Which is really a shame considering it is one of the very oldest sites.
What the Germans call “Indo-Germanic” is more commonly known as “Indo-European.”
Look, there's no reason to get all PeeCee just because Germany started both world wars, carried out the Holocaust, has no sense of humor, and, wait, what?
It's probably good that we don't have time travel. :^)
Vary vary coo!
Thanks.
Well, except for bombing Pearl Harbor.
Forget it, he's rolling.
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