Anatolian languages...of the Anatolian languages, 2nd-millennium Hittite. Although not acknowledged as such at the time, the first step in the right direction was taken in 1902, when Assyriologist Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon pointed out that the language of the so-called Arzawa letters (e.g., Hittite), from the Amarna archive, had an apparent affinity with Indo-European.
Hittite languageThe Indo-European character of Tocharian was announced by the German scholars Emil Sieg and Wilhelm Siegling in 1908. The Norwegian Assyriologist Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon recognized Hittite as Indo-European on the basis of two letters found in Egypt (translated in Die zwei Arzawa-briefe [1902; “The Two Arzawa Letters”]), but his views were not generally accepted until...
Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon
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