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	Wikipedia: Hittites
		Although their empire was composed from many diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, an Indo-European language now commonly known as the Hittite language was used in most of their secular written texts.
		In multi-lingual texts, passages written in that language are preceded by the adverb nesili (or nasili), "in Nesite".
		Upon its discovery the language had been quickly dubbed "Hittite" on biblical assumptions, and though scholars are now unanimous that the term "Hittite" is incorrect, they reckon that too much water has passed under the bridge to allow for a correction to "Nesite" at this late date.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/hi/hittites.html (1218 words)

	Talk:Hittites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word nesili isn't strictly the name of the "Hittite" language; it means "in X", where X is the native name of the language.
		The discovery of Hattian influences in Nesili is relatively recent leading to the idea that the aboriginal inhabitants were non Indo-european and non Afro-asiatic whose language has only ever been taken serioiusly as related to Circassian (of the North-West-Caucasian languages).
		Since writings about the Hitite empire in common circulation are about the Nesili speakers once this frame has been set the pursuing details must exclude the aboriginals and the Assyrians, and the Bible children of Heth and focus only on what has been discovered about the empire of the Nesili speakers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Hittites (8749 words)

	Northwest Caucasian languages
		Ubykh is characterised by pharyngealised consonantss and a four-way contrast between sibilants, or hissing-type sounds, of which English "s" is one; English contrasts two, whereas Ubykh contrasts four.
		\nThis ancient religious language used by the Hittites in some of their liturgy was totally unrelated to their secular Nesili, i.e.
		The term Hattic is used by modern linguists to designate this pre-Indo-European language, although no one knows what the speakers of this language called themselves.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/n/no/northwest_caucasian_languages_1.html (754 words)

	HITTITES : Encyclopedia Entry
		However, the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and spoke a non-Indo-European language conventionally called Hattic.
		The native term of the Hittite language was Nesili, the language of Nesa, the seat of the Hittite kings before the conquest of Hattusa.
		Many of the modern city names in Turkey are derived from their original Hittite names, such as Sinop and Adana, showing the impact of Hittite culture in Anatolia.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Hittites (1602 words)

	IELan3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Divergence was furthered by heavy contact with various non-Indo-European languages such as Semitic, Hurrian, and, above all, Hattic.
		("Hittite" derives from "Hatti," although the "Hittites" called themselves the Nes and their language Nesili.) Another view, which has gained ground in the past two decades, holds that proto-Anatolian diverged before Proto-Indo-European arose.
		The Hittite language faded with the collapse of the empire around 1200 BCE.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng480/IndoEuropean/IEL3/IEL3.html (152 words)

	A General History of the Near East, Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A Canaanite tribe called the Hittites is mentioned a few times in the Old Testament, but these were descendants of Ham, while most of the people of Hatti spoke an Indo-European language, meaning they were "Japhethites." This first became clear when the languages of Hatti were translated early in the twentieth century.
		The one most frequently used was thought to be Hittite at first, until they discovered a non-Indo-European language named "Hattili" (alternative names for the first language are Nesili or Kaneshite).
		By that time, however, everybody called the "forgotten empire" of Turkey and its main language Hittite, and the name had to be accepted whether or not it was correct.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /neareast/ne02.html (11509 words)

	table_of_nations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In secular history, this is certainly the case with the Nesili people, who conquered the region of Hatti and were known from Egypt to Mesopotamia as the "Hittites."
		The city of Kanesh/Nesa, nearby to Mazaca, may have been the homeland of the Hittites, who referred to their own language as Nesili or, in one instance, Kanesili--that is, "Neshian" or "Kaneshian." It is therefore tempting to interpret "Meshech" as a biblical cipher for the entire Hittite civilization.
		It should be noted that the Egyptians referred to the Hittites as Kheta--a reminiscence of Mtskheta?
	www.pursiful.com /writings/table_of_nations.html (8068 words)

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