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usrnm • today at 12:13 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The languages aren't even related. Hittite is an Indo-European language, closer related to English than Turkish

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logicchains • today at 12:20 PM

Kurdish is also Indo-European, but that doesn't stop Turks claiming it's just a dialect of Turkish (mountain Turkish).

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Bayart • today at 12:44 PM

The current consensus is not that Hittite is Indo-European, it's that Anatolian languages (including Hittite) are related to Indo-European, both stemming from proto-Indo-Anatolian.

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