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The cuneiform tablets are written in Assyrian (Akkadian, East Semitic):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language#Dialects

They also contain some loanwords from the local language of Kanesh (Kaneš, Kültepe 'ash hill' in Turkish), which is the earliest record of any Indo-European language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCltepe




If you'd like to learn to read that language, Hittite is fairly well-understood. And there's a college-freshman-level grammar out since 2011.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/elements-of-hittite/6FC...


The Kanisite Hittite that the GP describes isn't the Hittite taught in textbooks. It is a handful of Indo-European names in otherwise non-Indo-European text. For specialists only.


I am aware. But the fragments of Hittite attested in these Old Babylonian texts predate the earliest bits of the extant Hittite corpus by about a century. Given what we know about how the Hittite language evolved when it is well-attested, the differences are unlikely to be substantial.

My point remains: If you want to study the earliest attested Indo-European language, there's a good freshman-level grammar out there.




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