Etymology

Kalašma

Today it means: A late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire. Full definition →

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The story

The language is attested from a single clay tablet, whose introduction in Hittite describes its main text as being written in "the language of the land of Kalašma" (ka-la-aš-mi-li).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.