Assyrian Personal Names, XXVII 
owing to the special study devoted to the great Mitanni text in the Tell elAmarna letters by 
KNUDTZON !, SAYCE?, JENSEN 3, BRÜNNOW 4, MESSERSCHMIDT 5 and BORK®. As a result, especially 
of the inquiries made by the last named scholar, it is most probable that Mitannian was a Cau- 
casian language, showing affinity with north-Elamitic and the Hatti-Khaldian group of languages. 
That the language spoken by the Hatti was Indo-European, is probably no longer maintained 
by anybody. A closer acquaintance with its character may be expected when the valuable 
Boghazkói material becomes accessible to research. What relation the language or dialects 
spoken in the petty Hittite kingdoms which arose after the fall of the Hatti empire, bore to the 
Hatti or to the Mitannian language we can only determine by the names of persons from that 
period. We may, therefore, first and last lay stress upon the fact that the Hatti, Mitannian 
and late-Hittite names have an uniform character and thus, to a certain extent, 
justify the inclusion of Hatti, Mitannians and late-Hittites under the general name 
of Hittites. 
Whatever has been done hitherto for the collection and interpretation of cuneiform 
Hittite names, is chiefly due to investigators such as BALL”, SAYCE®, SACHAU?, PINCHES !9, 
HOMMEL 11, JENSEN !?, WINCKLER !?, BORK !4, WEBER !5, UNGNAD 16, LUCKENBILL 17, RANKE !$, 
GUSTAVS!? and CLAv?9, Whilst formerly students, led astray by superficial sound resemblances 
and by the occurrence of unmistakably proto-Iranian names among the Mitannians, sought for 
parallels to Hittite names in Iranian or Indo-European languages, they have only lately turned 
their attention to the indigenous languages of Asia Minor. In 1892 Professor SACHAU identified 
some “Hittite” names as Cilician. Professor JENSEN, in 1894, was disposed to replace the appel- 
lation Hatti or Hittite by Cilician, and in drawing his comparisons took names even from other 
parts of Asia Minor, whilst regarding Cilician as nearest to the Indo-European languages, espe- 
cially to Armenian. In his book Hittiter und Armenier (p. 120) he says expressly that the “Hatti- 
Cilician” elements he found in the names Surri, Kundaspi, Urikki, Uassurme, Ushitti, Urimme, 
Gunzinanu, Hulli, B(Pjurutas, etc. are not to be met with in later names from Western Asia 
Minor. This, however, is an obvious error, since in reality the majority of the elements con- 
tained in these names, are to be found in Carian and Lydian names also. Meanwhile, KRETSCHMER 
I) Die Tafel in der Mitannisprache, WA. 27, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie, IV, pp. 134—153. 
2) The language of Mitanni, Academy, Jan. 25, 1890; Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, V (1890), pp. 260—274. 
3) Vorstudien zur Entzifferung des Mitanni, ZA, V, pp. 166—208; VI, pp. 34—72; Zur Erklärung des Mitanni, 
ZA, XIV (1899), pp. 173— 181. 
4) Die Mitäni-Sprache, ZA, V, pp. 209—259. 
5) Mitanni-Studien, MVG, IV (1899), pp. 175—308. 
6) Die Mitannisprache, MVG, XIV (1909), pp. 1—126. 
7) Zranian names among the Hetta-Hatte, PSBA, X, 1887/8, pp. 424—456. 
8) Many contributions, in PSBA and JRAS. 
9) Bemerkungen zu Cilicischen Eigennamen, ZA, VIL (1892), pp. 85—103. 
IO) JRAS, 1897, p. 590 f. 
11) Hethiter und Skythen und das erste Auftreten der Iranier in der Geschichte, 1898; Grundriss der Geographie 
und Geschichte des Alten Orients, 1904, pp. 42—56; Mitanni-Namen in den Drehem-Tafeln, OLZ, XVI (1913), col. 304—306. 
12) Grundlagen für eine Entzifferung der (hatischen oder) cilicischen(?) Inschriften, ZOMG, 48 (1894), pp. 235—352; 
Die kilikischen Inschriften, NZKM, X, pp. 3—20; Hittiter und Armenier, Strassburg, 1898. 
13) See above, p. XV. 
14) Mitanni-Namen aus Nippur, OLZ, IX (1906), col. 588—590. 
15) Anmerkungen, in KNUDTZON, Die el-Amarna-Tafeln, p. 1009 fl., passim. 
16) Untersuchungen zu den Urkunden aus Dilbat, BA, VI (1909), No. 5, pp. 8—21. 
17) Some Hittite and Mitannian personal Names, AJSL, 26 (1909/10), pp. 96 — 104. 
18) Keilschriftliches Material zur altägyptischen Vokalisation, Berlin, 1910. 
19) Bemerkungen zur Bedeutung und zum Bau von Mitanni-Namen, OLZ, 15 (1912), col. 241—246, 300—305, 350 — 356. 
20) Personal Names, 1912. 
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