Readings: Palaic

Description

Palaic is one of the sister languages of Hittite and may have been spoken until the mid-second millennium BC. It is only attested in a few, often fragmentary, religious compositions such as myths and recitations involving food offerings to deities. In this course we will read all texts in Palaic. Because of the limited corpus we will have to approach the texts from both a comparative linguistic perspective with the help of Hittite and Luwian, and from a comparative religious perspective. The goal of this course is to prepare the student for further independent study of Palaic and its function in Hittite society.