Hittite cuneiform is the implementation of cuneiform script used in writing the Hittite language. The surviving corpus of Hittite texts is preserved in cuneiform on clay tablets dating to the 2nd millennium BC (roughly spanning the 17th to 12th centuries BC).

Hittite was written with a cuneiform script adapted from a version of Akkadian cuneiform from northern Syria and was deciphered during the early 20th century mainly by Bedřich Hrozný, with contributions by Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon, and Hugo Winckler, who discovered many tablets written in Hittite at the village of Boğazköy in Turkey.

To create the platform, I analyzed a large corpus of Hittite texts and identified 60,000 lexemes, or individual words, made up of 17,000 unique signs. From this analysis, I developed a series of lessons, each focusing on five specific signs.

5 days ago · The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early-attested Indo-European language, as well as numerous fragments in other Anatolian languages, alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts.

4 days ago · The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early ...

The dominant inhabitants in central Anatolia at the time were the Hatti (from whom the word "Hittite" was later derived). There were also Assyrian colonies in the country; it was from these that the Hittites adopted cuneiform script.

2 days ago · The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early ...

The main type of cuneiform, with its inventory of ideograms (including “determinatives” or “classifiers”) and phonetic signs, is a word-syllabic system like the Egyptian, hieroglyphic Hittite, Minoan-Mycenaean, proto-Elamite, and proto-Indic. The Sumerian system seems to be the oldest.

1 day ago · The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bogazkoy-Hattusa, located in the north of Türkiye, was once the capital of the powerful Hittite Empire. This civilization, a dominant force in the Late Bronze Age between 1,650 and 1,200 B.C., left behind a treasure trove of cuneiform tablets.. These ancient texts, written in Hittite—one of the oldest known Indo-European languages—alongside Sumerian ...

The archive of cuneiform clay tablets from Bogazköy (ancient Hattusas) presents the only extant recorded material about the civilization of Hittites, one of the most powerful political organisations of the Middle East during the 2nd millennium B.C.