Hieroglyphic Luwian

Hieroglyphic Luwian (luwili)[1] is a variant of the Luwian language, recorded in official and royal seals and a small number of monumental inscriptions.[2] It is written in a hieroglyphic script known as Anatolian hieroglyphs.[3]

Luwian
luwili
Luwian hieroglyphs at Hattusa
Region	Anatolia
Ethnicity	Luwians
Extinct	around 600 BC
Language family	Indo-European Anatolian Luwic Luwian
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Anatolian
Writing system	Anatolian hieroglyphs
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`hlu`
Linguist List	`hlu`
Glottolog	`hier1240`

A decipherment was presented by Emmanuel Laroche in 1960, building on partial decipherments proposed since the 1930s. Corrections to the readings of certain signs as well as other clarifications were given by David Hawkins, Anna Morpurgo Davies and Günther Neumann in 1973, generally referred to as "the new readings".

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