Hittite script - Hittite tomoji

Japanese: ヒッタイト文字 - ひったいともじ

Cuneiform characters found on Hittite clay tablets excavated at Boğazköy in central Turkey. Hittite characters are mainly composed of three elements: syllabaries that transliterate Hittite, ideograms that are logographic characters, and determinatives that are placed before the noun in question to indicate its meaning. The characteristics of the characters are those of the Third Dynasty of Ur (2112 BC - 2004 BC), in which the distinction between voiced plosives (g, b, d) and voiceless plosives (k, p, t) is not complete, and the distinction between long and short vowels, and between e and a and e and i are not clear.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

トルコ中部のボアズキョイ出土のヒッタイト粘土板文書に記された楔形文字。ヒッタイト文字は，おもにヒッタイト語を音写する音節文字，表意文字であるイデオグラムideogram，当該の名詞の前に置かれて意味を指示する限定符determinativeの3要素から構成される。文字の特徴は，ウル第3王朝(前2112‐前2004)のそれを示しており，有声破裂音(g,b,d)と無声破裂音(k,p,t)の区別が完全ではなく，母音の長短，e音とa音，e音とi音の別が明瞭ではない。

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