RT Article
T1 Sprachliche Merkmale religiöser Textsorten im Hethitischen
JF Die Welt des Orients
VO 44
IS 2
SP 162
OP 173
A1 Rieken, Elisabeth
LA German
PB Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785690205
AB Hittite possesses, as an official state language, all typical features of a written standard language by the beginning of the Empire period, but loses its intersocial function during the 13th century B. C. Part of the standard variety is a developed functional style for religious texts with several exclusive features, such as preposed humant- 'all'. This style arose mainly by loan processes, when foreign language texts were adapted to the Hittite culture and language. This is the result of a study of the Mastigga and Ambazzi rituals. Their linguistic and textual features show that the practitioners transmitted their description in Luwian, which was then translated by a scribe from the capital with an insufficient learner competence of Hittite and was finally corrected during the process of transmission in the state archives down to the 13th century B. C.