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Posted: 16 Oct 2021

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FIG. 3.2

FIG. 3.2
Copy of hieroglyphic Hittite inscription from the site of Carchemish (after Akurgal).

Image: ‘Archaeology And Language’ Colin Renfrew

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 Dinesh
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What on earth does it matter what language was spoken by long-dead people? As Hamlet asked of the player: ‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,’ that he should weep for her?’ So at first one might think. But language and identify are closely linked and there are few things more personal than the language one speaks. Indeed language and national identity are today very widely equated. One’s ‘ethnic’ affinity is often determined much more by language than by any identifiable physical characteristics, and elections are won or lost by Flemish and Walloons, bombs detonated by Welsh nationalists and Basque separatists, and massacres perpetrated in many parts of the world -- most recently in Sri Lanka -- on the basis of distinctions which are linguistic and cultural more than anything else. Often the differences are religious too, since religion as well as language is frequently a fundamental component of national or ethnic identity. So if we are interested in the origins of the modern word, we must understand the nature of past societies, this includes the social organization of these ancient peoples and their sense of self-identity, which brings us to the questions of ethnicity and language.
2 years ago.
 J.Garcia
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Excellent text and image
I agree with you, Dinesh
2 years ago.

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