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The 15 pages that link to Hittite language, each with the reason it gives.

• Hittite EmpireRelated: Its texts provide direct evidence for Hittite political and religious life.

• Proto-Indo-European languageRelated: Its early evidence transformed reconstructions, especially through forms relevant to laryngeal theory.

• HattusaRelated: Its tablets from Hattusa preserve royal, legal, religious, and diplomatic texts.

• Indo-European studiesBroader topic: Its early documentation transformed understanding of Proto-Indo-European structure and branching.

• NeogrammariansRelated: Its discovery supplied evidence for consonants predicted by comparative reconstruction.

• Indo-European linguisticsBroader topic: Hittite evidence reshaped reconstruction, especially through features associated with laryngeal theory.

• Laryngeal theoryRelated: Hittite preserved consonants identified with at least some reconstructed laryngeals.

• Hittite lawRelated: Its wording underlies the surviving legal texts and their modern interpretation.

• Anatolian languagesBroader topic: Hittite supplies the branch’s largest and earliest major corpus.

• Steppe hypothesisRelated: Its early attestation and Anatolian location constrain proposed dispersal chronologies.

• Bedřich HroznýBroader topic: Hrozný’s decipherment established its grammar and Indo-European identity.

• HittitologyBroader topic: Its grammar and vocabulary are central evidence for Hittite society and history.

• Compensatory lengtheningRelated: Hittite preserves consonants corresponding to some vowels lengthened elsewhere.

• KikkuliRelated: Kikkuli’s training treatise survives in Hittite, despite his Mitanni origin.

• Mursili IRelated: Hittite records provide evidence for the kingdom and its rulers.