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recognized the Luwian language in the documents found during the first years of excavation at
Hattusa. He concluded that “the Luwians were a far greater people than the Hittites”. Similar ideas sprung up in the writing of
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English, German and Turkish. The research that is supported by Luwian Studies is shedding a new light on the
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The Relationship between Hieroglyphic and Cuneiform Luwian: Reflections on the Origins of Anatolian Hieroglyphs
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