Hattic language †

Alternative names (including historical names and autoglottonyms): Hattian

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Volume 16. Ancient Relict Languages of the Near East
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Genealogy

Isolate

Geography

Main country: Turkey (show on the map)

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• The Hattic language
• Languages and people of the Near East in late 3rd-2nd millennium BC

Map designer: Yuri Koryakov

Identifiers

• Glottolog: hatt1246
• ISO-639-3: xht

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Features

Phonemic structure

Prosodic phenomena

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Syllable

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Phonologic structure and phenomena

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Morphological type of language

Nominal classifications

Number

Case meanings

Verbal categories

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Deictic categories

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Parts of speech and inflection

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Word formation

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Simple sentence

Complex sentence

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Unfilled features

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• [A-3] Opposition in openness/closedness for vowel height degrees
• [A-11] Vowel opposition in pharyngealization
• [A-12] Vowel opposition in ATR
• [A-15] Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features
• [A-19] Inventory of coronal obstruents by place of articulation
• [A-25] Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants
• [A-26] Inventory of fricatives by place of articulation
• [B-1] Basic prosodic unit
• [B-2] Prosodic unit carrier
• [B-3] Character of prosodic unit by its choice
• [B-4] Stress type (quality characteristics)
• [B-5] Stress fixedness
• [B-6] Fixed stress types
• [B-7] Stress pattern in inflection
• [B-8] Strictly fixed stress type (by position in a word)
• [B-9] Limited stress carriers
• [B-10] Tonema types
• [B-11] Number of level tones
• [B-12] Level tone types
• [B-13] Number of contour tone levels
• [B-14] Contour tonema types
• [B-15] Length character
• [B-16] Target of vowel harmony
• [B-17] Feature of vowel harmony
• [B-18] Trigger of vowel harmony
• [B-19] Other suprasegmental phenomena
• [B-20] Types of phonation
• [C-1] Syllable onset
• [C-2] Syllable coda
• [C-3] Consonant clusters in syllable
• [D-1] Restrictions on the phonemic structure in the initial position
• [D-2] Types of restrictions on the phonemic structure in the initial position
• [D-3] Restrictions on the phonemic structure in the final position
• [D-4] Types of restrictions on the phonemic structure in the final position
• [D-5] Variants of characteristics of the syllabic structure of words
• [D-6] Differences between content and function words
• [D-7] Types of differences between content and function words
• [D-8] Differences between native and borrowed words
• [D-9] Types of differences between native and borrowed words
• [D-10] Differences between roots and affixes
• [D-11] Types of differences between roots and affixes
• [D-12] Functional type of alternations
• [D-13] Type of altenations
• [E-2] Fusional type features
• [E-3] Agglutinative type features
• [F-5] Attributive agreement in gender
• [F-6] Agreement of cardinal numerals in gender
• [F-7] Nouns classifying categories
• [F-8] Opposition by person/non-person
• [F-9] Expression of animacy/inanimacy
• [G-3] Honorific forms in pronouns and verbs
• [G-4] Agreement in number
• [G-5] Form of a noun in numeral phrases
• [G-6] Numeral system
• [H-2] Subject and object marking
• [H-3] Case of nominal predicate
• [H-4] Case marking of possessive relations
• [H-5] Other means of expressing possessive relations
• [H-6] Means of expressing spatial relations
• [H-7] Dependent nouns in possessive constructions
• [H-8] Case marking of animate and inanimate nouns
• [H-9] Secondary cases
• [I-1] Voice forms expression
• [I-2] Voice stacking in the same verb form
• [I-3] Double voice forms
• [I-4] Voice forms coincidence
• [I-5] Tense forms
• [I-6] Aspect and tense expression
• [I-7] Expression of tense categories
• [I-8] Syncretic expression of several verb meanings
• [I-9] Marking of person in present tense verbs
• [I-10] Transitivity marker
• [J-1] Pronominal words
• [J-2] Expression of deictic categories
• [J-3] Function words expressing spatial orientation of action
• [J-4] Content words expressing spatial orientation of action
• [J-5] Morphological expression of (in)definiteness
• [J-6] Words expressing (in)definiteness
• [J-7] Grammatical ways to express politeness
• [J-8] Expression of negation
• [J-9] Negation marker position
• [K-1] Personal pronouns inflection
• [K-2] Articles
• [K-3] Indefinite article and numeral 'one'
• [K-4] Article place
• [K-5] Position of article in noun phrase
• [K-6] Grammar categories of article
• [K-7] Number of conjugation types
• [K-8] Verb agreement types
• [K-9] Agreement categories expressed in participle
• [K-10] Tense expressed by participle
• [K-11] Adverb grammar categories
• [K-12] Agreement categories expressed in adjective
• [K-13] Cumulative expression of several categories in adjective
• [K-14] Attribute agreement of adjectives
• [K-15] Attributive agreement types
• [K-16] Inflectional categories of noun
• [K-17] Cumulative expression of several categories in noun
• [K-18] Inflection means
• [K-19] Word form model
• [L-1] Word formation means
• [L-2] Derivation affixes
• [L-3] Stems relations in stem compounding
• [M-1] Morphosyntactic alignment
• [M-4] Order of nouns and its modifier
• [M-5] Pro-drop
• [N-1] Clauses order in compound sentence
• [N-2] Dependent clause distinctions in complex sentences
• [N-3] Dependent clause predicate
• [N-4] Compound sentence types
• [N-5] Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton

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• [A-5] Presence of length degrees
• [A-6] Number of length degrees
• [A-13] Diphthongs and triphthongs
• [A-14] Types of diphthongs
• [A-20] Inventory of guttural obstruents by place of articulation

Feature is not applicable to this language

• [A-8] Vowel opposition in labialization
• [A-10] Vowel opposition in nasalization
• [A-21] Inventory of postuvular obstruents by place of articulation
• [F-2] Morphological expression of agreement classes
• [F-3] Syntactic expression of agreement classes
• [F-4] Other means of expressing agreement classes