Information about previous classes; assignments
Lecture 1, 18.2.2020
who were the Hittites, location and time, major kings, find spots, language affiliation (the word for "water")
the "famous sentence" translated by Bedrich Hrozny:
nu NINDA-an
e-iz-za-at-te-ni wa-a-tar-ma
e-ku-ut-te-ni
logograms, basic problems of transliterations
Dictionaries, grammar books.
Assignment for the next Tuesday: briefly browse through the Grammar and Dictionary, expect nominal inflection and reading with cuneiform signs for the next week! :)
Lecture 2, 25.2.2020
Anatolian languages of the 2nd and 1st millenium.
CTH - catalogue de textes hittites. https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/CTH/
Konkodranz (where you can find tablets listed by the CTH number or by the Edition) https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/hetkonk/hetkonk_abfrageF.php
Major editions of Hittite texts: KBo, KUB, IBoT, ABoT
Nominal inflection (GHL, table, p. 69) - learn the endings.
Nominal declension - HOMEWORK: write 1-2 sentences about every nominal and adjectival class (a-stems, i-stems aetc.), send it to me by Monday before the next class)