Meanings
alternative Kalasma
- A late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire.
How closely the language of Kalasma is related to the other Luwian dialects of Late Bronze Age Anatolia will be the subject of further investigation.
2023 September 21, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, “New Indo-European language discovered during excavation in Turkey”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 06 Sep 20241 more example
The most recently discovered minority language, recorded by government scribes (and previously unknown to modern scholars) is being called Kalasmaic – because it seems to have been spoken by a subject people in an area called Kalasma on the empire's northwestern fringe.
2023 November 21, David Keys, “Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2024 - An extinct Indo-European language spoken in the ancient state of Kalašma.
Synonyms: Kalasmaic
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounAn extinct Indo-European language spoken in the ancient state of Kalašma.
Origin
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).
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Kalašma. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kala%C5%A1ma
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