Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 2) - Hardcover

Yakubovich, Ilya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004177914 ISBN 13: 9789004177918

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2009

Synopsis

Luvian is the language of Anatolian hieroglyphic inscriptions and a close relative of Hittite. This book reconstructs the ethnic history of the Luvians through sociolinguistic methods with an emphasis on the interpretation of linguistic contacts.

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Luvian is the language of Anatolian hieroglyphic inscriptions and a close relative of Hittite. This book explores the Luvian ethnic history through sociolinguistic methods, with an emphasis on the interpretation of contacts between Luvian and its linguistic neighbors, such as Hittite, Hurrian, and Greek. It is concluded that Luvian was originally spoken in the central part of Anatolia. Subsequent Luvian migrations were connected with the expansion of the Hittite state, where Hittite was the socially dominant language, but the Luvian speakers were more numerous. The unstable balance between the Hittite and the Luvian speakers continued to shift in favor of the second group, to the point that the Hittite elites were fully bilingual in Luvian.

About the Author:

Ilya Yakubovich is a recent graduate of the Joint Ph.D. Program in Linguistics and Near Eastern Studies of the University of Chicago. His research interests include language contact, socio-historical and Indo-European linguistics, Anatolian and Iranian philology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9004177914
• ISBN 13: 9789004177918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 454