- Palaic language
Infobox Language
name=Palaic
nativename
familycolor=Indo-European
region=Anatolia
extinct=around1300 BC
fam2=Anatolian
iso2=
iso3=plq
notice=nonoticePalaic is an extinct Indo-European language, attested in
cuneiform tablets inBronze Age Hattusa . Its name in Hittite is "palaumnili", or "of the people ofPala "; Pala was probably to the northwest of the Hittite core area, so in the northwest of present mainlandTurkey . That region was overrun by theKaskas in the 15th century BC, and the language likely went out of daily use at that time.The entire corpus of Palaic spans CTH 750-754 in Laroche's "
catalog of Hittite texts "; in addition Hittite texts elsewhere cite passages in Palaic in reference to the godZaparwa (Hittite Ziparwa) - totaling 21 passages, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Of the pure Palaic texts, CTH 750 is an account of the festival of Zaparwa and CTH 752 is another ritual. In addition to Zaparwa, the Palaumnili-speakers worshipped a sky godTiyaz (Luwian Tiwaz).Palaic is a fairly typical specimen of Indo-European. Old Hittite has the genitive singular suffix "-as" as of circa 1600 BC (compare Proto-Indo-European "*-os"); where Cuneiform Luwian instead uses the "-ssa" adjectival suffix. Palaic, on the northern border of both, like later Hieroglyphic Luwian has both an "-as" genitive and an "-asa" adjectival suffix. Palaic also shows the same gender distinction as seen in Hittite, i.e. animate vs. inanimate; and has similar pronoun forms. Therefore Palaic is thought to belong to the
Anatolian languages , although whether as a sister language to Old Hittite or Cuneiform Luwian is unknown.External links
* [http://www.asor.org/HITTITE/CTH725-830.html Catalog of Hittite Texts: TEXTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES]
* [http://www.unc.edu/~melchert/anatoliangenitive.pdf Genitive Case and Possessive Adjective in Anatolian] by Craig Melchert
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9058046 Palaic language, Encyclopaedia Britannica]
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