Hittite. 3rd edition. Ivanov V.V.

Hittology - the science of Hittites, their history, culture and language - has especially favorable opportunities for studying the relations of the history of language and the history of culture, since the Hittite language is known by very numerous and very diverse genre monuments that allows you to make a fairly complete view About Hittite culture. This is of particular importance, because the Hittite language is one of the ancient cultural languages ​​of front Asia. The Hittites culture played the role of an intermediary between the civilizations of the Middle East and Greece, which was reflected in linguistic facts. The ethnic and cultural ties of the Hittites with other peoples affected the vocabulary of the Hittite language, in which there are a number of borrowings from other languages ​​of front Asia. The Hittite language is a fertile material for studying the issues of mixing languages ​​and the formation of linguistic unions. Thus, acquaintance with the Hittite language can be of interest not only for Indo -Europeists, but also for a significantly wider circle of researchers involved in the issues of general linguistics and the history of the culture of the ancient East and the ancient world.