Anatolian languages
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The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia. The best known Anatolian language is Hittite, the earliest-attested Indo-European language.
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic–Caspian steppe
Inscriptions in Sidetic language, exhibits of the Museum of Side, Turkey
Luwian language
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Luwian, sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The ethnonym Luwian comes from Luwiya – the
Anatolian languages
…languages are probably the earliest branch to have split from Proto Indo-European. The presence of the laryngeal consonants ḫ and ḫḫ in Hittite and Luwian provided support for the laryngeal theory of Proto-Indo-European linguistics. While Hittite attestation ends after the Bronze Age, hieroglyphic Luwian…
Luwian hieroglyph BOS (cow)
Luwian hieroglyphs at Hattusa
Stele of Sultanhan, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara
Basalt bowl with engraved inscription in Luwian hieroglyphics found in Babylon, southern Iraq, in the 1880s and now in the collection of the British Museum