Kalašma
Kalašma proper noun: a late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire.
Proper noun
Kalašma
- A late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire.
- How closely the language of Kalasma is related to the other Luwian dialects of Late Bronze Age Anatolia will be the subject of further investigation.2023 September 21, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, “New Indo-European language discovered during excavation in Turkey”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2024
- The most recently discovered minority language, recorded by government scribes (and previously unknown to modern scholars) is being called Kalasmaic – because it seems to have been spoken by a subject people in an area called Kalasma on the empire's northwestern fringe.2023 November 21, David Keys, “Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep...
- An extinct Indo-European language spoken in the ancient state of Kalašma.
- Synonyms:
- Kalasmaic
Synonyms of Kalašma
Forms of Kalašma
| alternative form | Kalasma |
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Origin of Kalašma
The language is attested from a single clay tablet, whose introduction in Hittite describes its main text as being written in "the language of the land of Kalašma" (ka-la-aš-mi-li).
Questions about Kalašma
- What does Kalašma mean?
- Kalašma means a late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire.
- What part of speech is Kalašma?
- Kalašma is a proper noun.
Words near Kalašma in the dictionary
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