Talk:Kassites
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There seems to be disagreement on the language they spoke. If indeed the language is agglutinating, then it would not be Indo-European. Does anyone have any resources on the language?
- "speaking an Indo-European language"
- "No inscription or document in the Kassite language has been preserved"
- "Kassites, was agglutinative; a fragment of Kassite vocabulary has survived in a single Cuneiform tablet."
- "Apparently, Kassite has no connection with Indo-European, as had erroneously been supposed."
Can someone clear this up??? D.E. Cottrell 06:46, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I don't think Kassite is believed to be Indo-European - there may, as with the Hurrians of Mitanni, have been an Indo-European-derived aristocracy. BTW, is anything more known about the classification of Kassite? Is it ever associated with, for instance, either Hurrian or Elamite? john k 14:45, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] template deletion
as this article is about a ancient tribe originating in the Lurestan province of Iran, it should be more of an Iranian-related article, not a mesopotamian one.
Manu kian maheri 14:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- Most of what we know of the Kassites derives from the period when they ruled Babylon, not their obscure origins. john k 20:07, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
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- The best years of their history are connected to Mesopotamia, where they identified with and assimilated in the local culture and population. Desiphral-देसीफ्राल 11:46, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] KASSITE KINGS
I see that there is a good list of the Kassite kings at http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/Kassite_Dynasty which would be nice for this article. A couple of them already have wiki pages to link to. Ploversegg (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)ploversegg