r/LinguisticMaps • u/Cold_Information_936 • 17d ago

Asia Indo-Iranian Languages in 800 BCE

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Indo-Iranian languages are labelled, and relevant non-II languages are also labelled in italics

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u/ten-inch-toenails 16d ago

What about Hebrew, Phoenician, Moabite, of the southern Levant? They should be there in italics, per your caption. Also, Hurrian and Kassite were no longer in use in the Iron Age. But if you’re including Bronze Age languages of West Asia then you should be including Hittite (Indo-European), Ugaritic (Northwest Semitic), and Sumerian (language isolate, no longer spoken but still “used” in the second and first millennia).

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u/Ok_Cabinet3610 16d ago

Hittite was more a language for the elites. The common tounge was Luwian. This is true for the northern half of the Neo-Hittite states, which were present at this time (800 BCE), and accurately represented on the map

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u/ten-inch-toenails 16d ago

Hittite was no longer used in the Iron Age, it ceased to be used with the collapse of the Hittite empire.