Editing Luwian language (section)

== Vocabulary and texts ==
The known Luwian vocabulary consists mostly of words inherited from [[Proto-Indo-European]]. [[Loan word]]s for various technical and religious concepts derive mainly from [[Hurrian language|Hurrian]], and were often subsequently passed on through Luwian to Hittite.

The surviving corpus of Luwian texts consists principally of cuneiform ritual texts from the 16th and 15th centuries BC and monumental inscriptions in hieroglyphs. There are also some letters and economic documents. The majority of the hieroglyphic inscriptions derive from the 12th to 7th centuries BC, after the fall of the [[Hittite empire]].

Another source of Luwian are the hieroglyphic seals which date from the 16th to the 7th centuries BC. Seals from the time of the Hittite empire are often [[digraphic]], written in both cuneiform and hieroglyphics. However, the seals nearly always are limited to [[logogram]]s. The absence of the syllabic symbols from the seals makes it impossible to determine the pronunciation of names and titles that appear on them, or even to make a certain attribution of the text to a specific language.