Syro-Anatolian Languages [ LGLOR2771 ]

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LGLOR 1611 and LGLOR 1612.

Alternating with LGLOR 2772, this course deals with the following themes:

1. The scripts that are used in the texts studied;
2. The vocabulary of the texts;
3. The nominal and verbal morphology;
4. Questions of syntax.

Mastery of the Luwian language, a sister language of Hittite, and an introduction to Hurrian and Hattic.

At the end of this course, the student will be capable to read and translate a Luwian text, and to begin to read a text in Hurrian or Hattic. To achieve this goal, he will have learnt the Luwian hieroglyphic script, as well as the vocabulary and grammar of these languages.

Continuous evaluation during the year.

Written exam of an unseen text followed by its oral correction.

The part "Initiation" takes the form of lectures.

The texts prepared by the students are corrected and are the subject of grammatical, historic and cultural commentaries.

The course gives the necessary philological complement to any student who is interested by Asia Minor and Syria from the 2nd Millennium to the Roman period.

Luwian is an Indo-European sister language of Hittite, written in cuneiform and hieroglyphic script, attested both on clay tablets and monuments. The course is axed on inscriptions coming from northern Syria (Carchemish) and Turkey (Malatya)

Hurrian is a language unique of its kind, close to Urartian, used in Syria and Anatolia throughout the whole of the 2nd millennium. It was the official language of the kingdom of Mitanni. The course deals with the study of short religious texts.

- R. Lebrun, «Approche du monde louvite», in Volumen 5-6 (2011), Louvain-la-Neuve.

- H.C. Melchert (éd.), The Luwians (HdO sect. 1, vol. 68), Leyde-Boston, 2003.

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