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Hittite

DEFINITIONS OF: Hittite

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adj of or relating to the Hittite people or their language or culture

n a member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC

Type of:
denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant
a person who inhabits a particular place

n the language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions

Type of:
Anatolian, Anatolian language
an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
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