Social:Kalašma language

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Short description: Extinct Anatolic language
Kalašma
RegionAnatolia
ExtinctUnknown
Indo-European
  • Anatolian
    • Luwic?
      • Kalašma
Hittite cuneiform
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)

The Kalašma language, or Kalasmaic, is an extinct Anatolian language spoken in the late Bronze Age polity of Kalašma, which lay on the northwest fringe of the Hittite Empire, likely in or around what is now the Turkish province of Bolu.[1] The Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg announced the discovery of Kalasmaic in 2023, based on a clay tablet from the Bogazköy Archive excavated at Hattusa, the Hittite capital.[2] The tablet, written in Hittite cuneiform, is one of many in the archive recording rituals of the empire's subject and neighbouring peoples.[1] Its Hittite-language introduction describes its main text as in "the language of the land of Kalašma".[1] At the time its discovery was announced, the text itself had not been deciphered.[1] Categorization of Kalasmaic within Anatolian is unclear; it is possibly a member of the Luwic branch.[3] The text will be published once initial analysis is complete, expected in 2024.[4]

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