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The Palaic language

 
Group Anatolian (with Hittite, Lydian etc.), Early Anatolian (with Hittite and Luwian)
Geography Spoken in the country named Pala, north to the Hittite state, in Central Anatolia.
History Palaic cuneiform tablets date back to the 17th-14th centuries BC. It was influenced greatly by the Hatti language, and after the 14th century fell out of use, assimilated by Hatti, though was still used as a cult language until the 13th century BC. 
Phonetics The transition of e into a was not strict, and a lot of ancient roots with e were preserved (e.g. wete- 'to build' from IE *wedh-). k became a spirant between vowels.
Nominal Morphology The common Anatolian type of declension is used, but many case inflections were replaced by adjectival suffixes or not used at all. Together with the Luwian language, Palaic was already about to become an agglutinative language and to drop the Indo-European inflections.
Verbal Morphology In the conjugation, the two series of Anatolian personal endings are seen. The 3rd person plural past tense ending is -nta which differs from the Hittite -r. The verb was usually used at the end of the sentence.
Lexicon Of all 250 known Palaic words, just 10 or 20 are exactly Indo-European. There are also about 100 words which cannot be deciphered yet.
Writing Cuneiform
Close Contacts Scientists sometimes claim that Hittite and Palaic once made a single subgroup after Luwian moved apart. The Hatti language influenced the lexicon very much.
Picture Asia Minor countries in Hittite texts
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