Physiognomy
Some times scholars were thinking that Hattians and Hittites had perhaps different personal characteristics, though most Anatolian Kingdoms in the Bronze Age were multi-cultural. Egyptian depictions of the Battle of Kadesh reportedly show long-nosed Hattian soldiers, while their Hittite leaders looked different according to Turkish archaeologist Ekrem Akurgal. But we do not know who those Hittites were, the soldiers of the Hittite army were certainly not from one language group. Also the kings of Hatti were not from one ethic type, they married for example with princesses of foreign kingsdoms like Babylon, Ammuru and Kizzuwanda. It can not be proven that the Hattians were different in type from the other Anatolians, because we don't know how the 'other' peoples looked like, and we even do not know how the Hattians looked like.
Petra Goedegebuure describes in her impressive article ’Central Anatolian languages and languages communities’ that before the conquering of the land of the Hatti by the kings of Kussara/Nesa ca. 1700 BC an Indo-European language, probable Luvian, already a long time was spoken beside the Hattic language .Alexei Kassian remarks in this discussion that the Northwest Caucasian languages (Abkhazo-Adyghe), which are syntactically SOV, had lexical contacts with the Hattian language. This can offer a new or an additional option.
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