Kalašma

English

Alternative forms

• Kalasma

Etymology

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).

Proper noun

Kalašma

1. A late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire.
   • 2023 September 21, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, “New Indo-European language discovered during excavation in Turkey”, in Phys.org‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-06:

     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 November 21, David Keys, “Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language”, in The Independent‎^[2], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-09-26:

     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.

2. An extinct Indo-European language spoken in the ancient state of Kalašma.

   Synonym: Kalasmaic

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Kalašma terms

Further reading

• Kalašma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kalašma language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia