{"id":121509,"date":"2023-11-26T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T11:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=121509"},"modified":"2023-11-26T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T11:31:05","slug":"brand-new-3000-year-old-language-discovered-but-no-one-can-translate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/brand-new-3000-year-old-language-discovered-but-no-one-can-translate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand new 3,000 year old language discovered – but no one can translate it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Hittite Empire was one of the great powers of Western Asia during the Late Bronze Age, from 1650 to 1200 BC.<\/p>\n

There is an ongoing excavation going on to find out more about the society conducted at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hattusa in modern-day Turkey.<\/p>\n

To date there have been almost 30,000 clay tablets discovered with most of them written in Hittite, the oldest known Indo-European language.<\/p>\n

But now the hunt to find out more about the civilisation has thrown up something totally unexpected – as it’s written in a language that’s totally unknown.<\/p>\n

Professor Daniel Schwemer, chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t (JMU) W\u00fcrzburg in Germany, is investigating the discovery.<\/p>\n

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He says that there is an introductory Hittite text that refers to the language of the land of Kala\u0161ma – an area on the north-western edge of the Hittite heartland, reports Greek Reporter.<\/p>\n

He said: “The Hittites were uniquely interested in recording rituals in foreign languages.”<\/p>\n

SUR, a Spanish newspaper, explains more.\u00a0It said: “Kala\u0161ma refers to a society organised in the Bronze Age -1650 to 1200 BC. C.- which was located in the northwest fringe of the Hittite Empire, probably what is today the Turkish province of Bolu.<\/p>\n

“Therefore, the text found would belong to the Kalasmaic language, a language that is absolutely extinct and about which there is very little information.”<\/p>\n

However, experts say that the lost dialect has certain similarities with the Luwian language – another Indo-European language – which could be the key to cracking the mystery.<\/p>\n

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