Editing Luwian language (section)

{{Short description|Ancient Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire}}
{{For|the Sal languages spoken in Burma and Bangladesh|Luish languages}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Luwian
| states           = [[Hittite Empire]], [[Arzawa]], [[Neo-Hittite kingdoms]]
| region           = [[Anatolia]] ([[Turkey]]), Northern [[Syria]]
| ethnicity        = [[Luwians]]
| extinct          = around [[6th century BC|600 BC]]
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Anatolian languages|Anatolian]]
| fam3             = [[Anatolian languages#Luwic branch|Luwo]]-[[Lydian language|Lydian]]
| fam4             = [[Anatolian languages#Luwic branch|Luwo]]-[[Palaic language|Palaic]]
| fam5             = [[Anatolian languages#Luwic branch|Luwic]]
| ancestor         = [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]]
| ancestor2        = [[Proto-Anatolian language|Proto-Anatolian]]
| lc1              = xlu
| ld1              = [[Cuneiform Luwian]]
| lc2              = hlu
| ld2              = [[Hieroglyphic Luwian]]
| linglist         = xlu
| lingname         = [[Cuneiform Luwian]]
| linglist2        = hlu
| lingname2        = [[Hieroglyphic Luwian]]
| glotto           = luvi1235
| glottorefname    = Luvian
| image            = Hieroglyph Luwian BOS.jpg
| imagecaption     = [[Luwian hieroglyph]] BOS (cow)
| imagescale       = 0.4
| map              = Luwian language en.svg
| mapcaption       = Distribution of the Luwian language
| map2             = 
| mapcaption2      = 
| notice           = IPA
| script           = [[Cuneiform]]<br />[[Anatolian hieroglyphs]] 
}}
'''Luwian''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|uː|w|i|ə|n}}), sometimes known as '''Luvian''' or '''Luish''', is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the [[Anatolian languages|Anatolian branch]] of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] [[language family]]. The [[ethnonym]] Luwian comes from ''Luwiya'' (also spelled ''Luwia'' or ''Luvia'') – the name of the region in which the [[Luwians]] lived. Luwiya is attested, for example, in the [[Hittite laws]].<ref>Law number 21 of the [[Code of the Nesilim]] says, "If anyone steal a slave of a Luwian from the land of Luwia, and lead him here to the land of Hatti, and his master discover him, he shall take his slave only."</ref>

The two varieties of Luwian are known after the scripts in which they were written: [[#Cuneiform Luwian|Cuneiform Luwian]] (''CLuwian'') and [[Hieroglyphic Luwian]] (''HLuwian''). There is no consensus as to whether these were a single language or two closely related languages.