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What is Kassite?
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:50 pm
by keenir
Was wondering what material exists about the Kassite language, and I found this in the forum here, and was wondering if anything had been found since then.
And evidence points to the Indo-Iranian superstrate of the Mitanni being Indo-Aryan rather than Iranian, fascinatingly. (The Hurrian mainstay of the Mitanni had already been in the region for quite some time, of course. Some linguists suggest that the Kassites who plagued the Sumerians may have been cousins of the Hurro-Urartians, but attestations of Kassite are so limited that I imagine that would be hard to prove.)
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I imagine most material would be in the form of names, rendered in Aramaic and-or Sumerian -- the script of the scribes. It'd be a good starting point, at least, yes?
thank you
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:07 pm
by zompist
I assume you've looked at
Wikipedia and
Encyclopedia Iranica?
These summarize the evidence-- basically a few hundred words, with no texts in Kassite itself. I'd be very wary of claims of family membership.
(I think you mean Akkadian btw. Aramaic was not yet spoken in Babylonia in Kassite times.)
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:25 pm
by keenir
zompist wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:07 pm
I assume you've looked at
Wikipedia and
Encyclopedia Iranica?
These summarize the evidence-- basically a few hundred words, with no texts in Kassite itself.
thank you.
I'd be very wary of claims of family membership.
thats why I didn't go to Wiki yet.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:55 pm
by fusijui
I knew a woman named Kassite' once, but she spoke some Indo-European thing -- probably not of interest.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:45 pm
by keenir
fusijui wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:55 pm
I knew a woman named Kassite' once, but she spoke some Indo-European thing -- probably not of interest.
I trust everyone here; so please continue.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:54 pm
by keenir
PS: The book I was reading today, by Karen Armstrong, mentioned that the Kassites came from the Caucuses(sp)
But all that tells me is that their language isn't related to Basque.
(tis a joke)
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:10 am
by zompist
keenir wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:54 pm
PS: The book I was reading today, by Karen Armstrong, mentioned that the Kassites came from the Caucuses(sp)
No, not likely. They're usually considered to have come from the Zagros, that is, the mountains just to the east of Mesopotamia.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 2:08 am
by fusijui
keenir wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:45 pm
fusijui wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:55 pm
I knew a woman named Kassite' once, but she spoke some Indo-European thing -- probably not of interest.
I trust everyone here; so please continue.
It was just an inventive spelling of "Cassidy", and I was trying to be cleverer than I should've.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:41 am
by alice
Kassite is an ore of the rare elements which phonemes are made of.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:02 am
by Vardelm
keenir wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:54 pm
PS: The book I was reading today, by Karen Armstrong, mentioned that the Kassites came from the Caucuses(sp)
But all that tells me is that their language isn't related to Basque.
(tis a joke)
Or..... is it? Time to start work on the great Proto-Caucuso-Basque theory.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:18 am
by bradrn
Alas, Vasco–Caucasian is a well-known theory, beloved of crackpots the world over.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 1:50 pm
by Vardelm
bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:18 am
Alas, Vasco–Caucasian is a well-known theory, beloved of crackpots the world over.
PERFECT!
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 9:02 am
by Talskubilos
bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:18 amAlas, Vasco–Caucasian is a well-known theory, beloved of crackpots the world over.
Not anymore.
Re: What is Kassite?
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 10:12 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
alice wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:41 am
Kassite is an ore of the rare elements which phonemes are made of.
As I thought.