Editing Hattic language (section)

{{Short description|Ancient language of Asia Minor}}{{About|the ancient language spoken in Asia Minor|Haitian language|Haitian language (disambiguation)}}{{Infobox language
| name             = Hattic
| region           = [[Anatolia]]
| ethnicity        = [[Hattians]]
| era              = 2nd millennium BC
| ref              = linglist
| familycolor      = unclassified
| family           = unclassified
| iso3             = xht
| linglist         = xht
| glotto           = hatt1246
| glottorefname    = Hattic
| altname          = Hattian
| imagecaption     = CTH 738: Festival for Goddess Tetešḫapi; bilingual text in Hittite and Hattic
| image            = Hittite Cuneiform Tablet- Cultic Festival Script.jpg
| map              = Hattic-language-rus.png
| mapcaption       = Map of Hattic distribution in Anatolia
}}

'''Hattic''', or '''Hattian''', was a non-[[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] [[agglutinative]]<ref>Kevin James, A Mystery in Clay: Codes, Languages, and a Journey Through Time to the Last Ice Age, p.148, AuthorHouse, 2009: "They called themselves Hattie, and spoke a non-Indo-European language called Hattic."</ref><ref>The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. 22, p.593: "The non-Indo-European Hattic is an agglutinative language&nbsp;..."</ref> language spoken by the [[Hattians]] in [[Asia Minor]] in the [[2nd millennium BC]]. Scholars call the language "Hattic" to distinguish it from [[Hittite language|Hittite]], the Indo-European language of the [[Hittite Empire]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-256934/Hattian Hattian – Britannica Online Encyclopedia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The Hittites referred to the language as ''hattili'' (there are no attestations of the name of the language in Hattic itself), related to the [[Assyria|Assyrian]] and [[Egypt|Egyptian]] designation of an area west of the [[Euphrates]] as "Land of the Hatti" (Khatti). 

The heartland of the oldest attested language of [[Anatolia]] before the arrival of Hittite-speakers, ranged from [[Hattusa]], then called "Hattus", northward to [[Nerik]]. Other cities mentioned in Hattic include Tuhumiyara and Tissaruliya. Hittite-speakers conquered Hattus from [[Kussara]] to its south in the 18th century BC. They absorbed or replaced the Hattic-speaking ruling class ([[Hattians]]){{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} but retained the name ''Hatti'' for the region. The name of the inhabitants of that area is likewise identified with the [[Biblical Hittites|Biblical Heth]], from which, in turn, the English word ''Hittite'' is derived.