Hattian
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The Hattians were an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia, the region of modern-day Turkey. Their language, known as Hattian or Hattic, was non-Indo-European and predates the arrival of the Indo-European Hittites.123
By around 1400 BCE, Hattian was no longer spoken, but the Hittites, who adopted the name of their predecessors, preserved Hattian texts primarily related to religious practices, including rituals, incantations, and myths. Hattian is characterized by its agglutinative grammar, using both prefixes and suffixes, and does not distinguish between nouns and verbs. The Hattian culture significantly influenced the Hittites, particularly in their political and religious concepts.12
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