Editing Hittite language (section)

== History ==
The Hittite language has traditionally been stratified into Old Hittite (OH), Middle Hittite (MH) and New Hittite or Neo-Hittite (NH, not to be confused with the [[polysemic]] use of "[[Neo-Hittite]]" label as a designation for the later period, which is actually post-Hittite), corresponding to the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms of the Hittite history ({{Circa|1750}}–1500 BC, 1500–1430 BC and 1430–1180 BC, respectively). The stages are differentiated on both linguistic and paleographic grounds.{{sfn|Hout|2011|p=2-3}}{{sfn|Inglese|2020|p=61}}

Hittitologist [[Alwin Kloekhorst]] (2019) recognizes two dialectal variants of Hittite: one he calls "Kanišite Hittite", and a second he named "Ḫattuša Hittite" (or Hittite proper).<ref>Kloekhorst, Alwin. ''Kanišite Hittite: The Earliest Attested Record of Indo-European''. Leiden, The Netherlands, Boston: Brill, 2019. p. 246. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004382107</ref> The first is attested in clay tablets from Kaniš/Neša ([[Kültepe]]), and is dated earlier than the findings from Ḫattuša.<ref>Kloekhorst, Alwin. "[https://www.academia.edu/86912968/Anatolian_2022_ Anatolian]". In: ''The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective''. Edited by Thomas Olander. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 63–64, 75. {{doi|10.1017/9781108758666.005}}</ref>