Kalašma

English Alternative forms en Kalasma Etymology hit how was it written in the original script? The language is attested from a single clay tablet, whose introduction in en hit - 1 describes its main text as being written in "the language of the land of Kalašma" (ka-la-aš-mi-li). Proper noun A late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire. en Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg New Indo-European language discovered during excavation in Turkey w:Phys.org https://web.archive.org/web/20240906002437/https://phys.org/news/2023-09-indo-european-language-excavation-turkey.html 21 September 2023 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. w:David Keys Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language https://web.archive.org/web/20240926123518/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/hittite-ancient-language-turkey-ankara-b2451364.html 21 November 2023 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. An extinct Indo-European language spoken in the ancient state of Kalašma. en Kalasmaic See also ine-kal Further reading Kalašma language