Editing Hattic language (section)

==Corpus==
No document has been found in which native Hattic-speakers wrote their own language. Scholars must rely on indirect sources or mentions by their neighbours and successors, the Hittites. Some Hattic words can be found in religious tablets of Hittite priests that date from the 14th and the 13th centuries BC. The passages contained, between the lines of the text signs, the explanation "the priest is now speaking in Hattic".<ref>Akurgal, Ekrem – ''The Hattian and Hittite Civilizations''. pp 4–5.</ref>

Roots of Hattic words can also be found in the names of mountains, rivers, cities and gods. Other Hattic words can be found in some mythological texts.

All published Hattic documents are catalogued in the ''[[Hittite texts|Catalogue des textes hittites]]'' (CTH). Documents from [[Hattusa]] span CTH 725–745. Of these CTH 728, 729, 731, 733, and 736 are Hattic/Hittite bilinguals. CTH 737 is a Hattic incantation for the festival at [[Nerik]]. One key, if fragmentary, bilingual is the story of "The Moon God Who Fell from the Sky". (There are additional Hattic texts in [[Sapinuwa]], which had not been published as of 2004.)