ABSTRACT
The Anatolian subgroup of Indo-European is attested from the middle of the second millennium BCE to approximately the first and second centuries CE. There are no modern representatives of the family. The evidence ranges from the extensive records for Hittite through the significant but progressively smaller text corpora in Luwian, Lycian, Lydian, Carian, and Palaic to the mere handful of inscriptions in Sidetic and Pisidian. We have Hittite, Palaic, and Luwian texts from the second millennium in the cuneiform writing system borrowed from Mesopotamia and Luwian inscriptions in a native Anatolian system of hieroglyphs from the late second and early first millennium BCE. After a significant break, the remaining languages from the late first millennium are written in alphabets closely related to or derived from that of Greek. The great disparity in the amount of evidence for the respective languages and the nature of the cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing systems limit to a serious extent our ability to make assured generalizations about features of the Anatolian family. These limitations will be addressed explicitly wherever appropriate.
