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different cases in addition to the forms given in the table luwian also had a demonstrative pronoun formed from the stem za zi but not all cases are known and also a relative pronoun which was declined regularly kwis nominative singular animate kwin accusative singular animate kwinzi nominative accusative plural animate kwati ablative instrumental singular kwanza dative locative plural kwaya nominative accusative plural inanimate some indefinite pronouns whose meanings are not entirely clear are also transmitted verbs edit like many other indo european languages luwian distinguishes two numbers singular and plural and three persons there are two moods indicative and imperative but no subjunctive there are two tenses the present which is used to express future events as well and the preterite the following active voice endings have been attested present preterite imperative 1st person singular wi ha plural min a han a 2nd person singular si tis a ta ø plural tani tan tanu 3rd person singular ti r i ia ta r tu r plural nti nta ntu the conjugation is very similar to the hittite ḫḫi conjugation for the mediopassive the following endings are attested 41 present 2nd person singular plural ttuwar i 3rd person singular ar i t t ari plural antari a single participle can be formed with the suffix a i mma it has a passive sense for transitive verbs and a stative sense for intransitive verbs the infinitive ends in una syntax edit the usual word order is subject object verb but words can be moved to the front of the sentence for stress or to start a clause relative clauses are normally before the antecedent but they sometimes follow the antecedent dependent words and adjectives are normally before their head word enclitic particles are often attached to the first word or conjunction various conjunctions with temporal or conditional meaning are used to link clauses there is no coordinating conjunction but main clauses can be coordinated with the enclitic ha which is attached to the first word of the following clause in narratives clauses are linked by using the prosecutive conjunctions a before the first word of the following clause means and then and pā can be an independent conjunction at the start of a clause and the enclitic pa indicates contrast or a change of theme the following example sentence demonstrates several common features of luwian a final verb the particle chain headed by the conjunction a the quotative clitic wa and the preverb sarra adding directionality to the main verb awiha 𔗷𔗬𔑈𔓯𔐤𔗷𔖶𔔆𔗐𔓱𔑣𔓢𔑈𔓷𔖻𔗔𔑏𔖱𔗷𔖶𔑦𔗬𔓯𔓷 a wa and quot api n dem abl wattaniy ati land abl pl pihammi s glorified nom sarra over awi ha come 1 sg a wa api n wattaniy ati pihammi s sarra awi ha and quot dem abl land abl pl glorified nom over come 1 sg and i came over glorified from those lands karkamiš a11b c line 14 42 43 vocabulary and texts edit the known luwian vocabulary consists mostly of words inherited from proto indo european loan words for various technical and religious concepts derive mainly from hurrian and were often subsequently passed on through luwian to hittite the surviving corpus of luwian texts consists principally of cuneiform ritual texts from the 16th and 15th centuries bc and monumental inscriptions in hieroglyphs there are also some letters and economic documents the majority of the hieroglyphic inscriptions derive from the 12th to 7th centuries bc after the fall of the hittite empire another source of luwian are the hieroglyphic seals which date from the 16th to the 7th centuries bc seals from the time of the hittite empire are often digraphic written in both cuneiform and hieroglyphics however the seals nearly always are limited to logograms the absence of the syllabic symbols from the seals makes it impossible to determine the pronunciation of names and titles that appear on them or even to make a certain attribution of the text to a specific language history of research edit after the decipherment of hittite cuneiform luwian was recognised as a separate but related language by emil forrer in 1919 44 further progress in the understanding of the language came after the second world war with the publication and analysis of a larger number of texts important work in this period was produced by bernhard rosenkranz heinrich otten and emmanuel laroche an important advance came in 1985 with the reorganisation of the whole text corpus by frank starke the decipherment and classification of hieroglyphic luwian was much more difficult in the 1920s there were a number of failed attempts in the 1930s some individual logograms and syllabic signs were correctly identified at this point the classification of the language was not yet clear and since it was believed to be a form of hittite it was referred to as hieroglyphic hittite after a break in research due to the second world war there was breakthrough in 1947 with the discovery and publication of a phoenician hieroglyphic luwian bilingual text by helmuth theodor bossert the reading of several syllabic signs was still faulty however and as a result it was not realised that the cuneiform and hieroglyphic texts recorded the same language in the 1970s as a result of a fundamental revision of the readings of a large number of hieroglyphs by john david hawkins anna morpurgo davies and günter neumann it became clear that both cuneiform and hieroglyphic texts recorded the same luwian language this revision resulted from a discovery outside the area of luwian settlement namely the annotations on urartian pots written in the urartian language using the hieroglyphic luwian script the sign which had hitherto been read as ī was shown to be being used to indicate the sound za which triggered a chain reaction resulting in an entirely new system of readings since that time research has concentrated on better understanding the relationship between the two different forms of luwian in order to gain a clearer understanding of luwian as a whole trojan hypothesis edit luwian has been deduced as one of the likely candidates for the language spoken by the trojans 45 after the 1995 finding of a luwian biconvex seal at troy vii there has been a heated discussion over the language that was spoken in homeric troy frank starke of the university of tübingen demonstrated that the name of priam king of troy at the time of the trojan war is connected to the luwian compound priimuua which means exceptionally courageous 46 the certainty is growing that wilusa troy belonged to the greater luwian speaking community but it is not entirely clear whether luwian was primarily the official language or if it was in daily colloquial use 47 see also edit pre greek substrate notes edit law number 21 of the code of the nesilim says if anyone steal a slave of a luwian from the land of luwia and lead him here to the land of hatti and his master discover him he shall take his slave only 1 2 anna bauer 2014 morphosyntax of the noun phrase in hieroglyphic luwian leiden brill nv pp 9 10 melchert 2012 p 14 melchert 1987 melchert 1993 p 99 melchert p c reported in rieken 2012 p 5 melchert 2003 yakubovich 2010 307 melchert 2003 pp 147 51 christoph bachhuber 2013 james mellaart and the luwians a culture pre history christoph bachhuber 2013 james mellaart and the luwians a culture pre history p 284 p widmer mykenisch ru wa ni jo luwier kadmos 45 2007 82 84 cited on palaeolexicon word study tool of ancient languages gander 2015 474 see e g bryce in melchert 2003 29 31 singer 2005 435 hawkins 2009 74 although yakubovich 2010 has argued that a chain of scribal error and revision led to this substitution and that luwiya was not coterminous with arzawa but was further east in the area of the konya plain see yakubovich 2010 107 17 watkins 1994 id 1995 144 51 starke 1997 melchert 2003 for the geography hawkins 1998 hawkins 2013 p 5 gander 2017 p 263 matessi 2017 fn 35 beekes 2003 cf melchert 2008b 154 mouton alice and yakubovich ilya where did one speak luwili geographic and linguistic diversity of luwian cuneiform texts in journal of language relationship vol 19 no 1 2 2021 pp 25 53 https doi org 10 1515 jlr 2021 191 208 kloekhorst alwin anatolian in the indo european language family a phylogenetic perspective edited by thomas olander cambridge cambridge university press 2022 pp 64 69 doi 10 1017 9781108758666 005 kloekhorst alwin 2022 anatolian in thomas olander ed the indo european language family a phylogenetic perspective cambridge cambridge university press p 69 doi 10 1017 9781108758666 005 isbn 978 1 108 75866 6 it is generally accepted that cuneiform luwian and hieroglyphic luwian are closely related yet distinct dialects mouton alice yakubovich ilya december 2021 where did one speak luwili geographic and linguistic diversity of luwian cuneiform texts journal of language relationship 19 1 2 25 53 doi 10 1515 jlr 2021 191 208 inactive 12 july 2025 cite journal cs1 maint doi inactive as of july 2025 link kloekhorst alwin anatolian in the indo european language family a phylogenetic perspective edited by thomas olander cambridge cambridge university press 2022 p 64 doi 10 1017 9781108758666 005 luwian cuneiform texts are collected in starke 1985 laroche 1971 pp 35 9 yakubovich 2010 pp 68 73 british museum collection isbn 9004253416 sök på google in swedish retrieved 2018 04 19 melchert h craig 2004 luvian in woodard roger d ed the cambridge encyclopedia of the world s ancient languages cambridge cambridge university press isbn 0 521 56256 2 melchert h craig 1996 anatolian hieroglyphs in daniels peter t bright william eds the world s writing systems new york and oxford oxford university press isbn 0 19 507993 0 the script has also been called luwian or luvian hieroglyphs and in older publications hittite hieroglyphs a number of italian scholars use geroglifico anatolico a term that is gaining popularity in english also with craig melchert favouring anatolian hieroglyphs in recent publications ilya yakubovich 2010 69 70 argues 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