Hittites Language 

 The written documents found in Archeological works show that apart from Hittite language,  Luwian and Pala Languages belonging Indo-European Language family, Hurri, Hatti and Akkadian languages were also used as the written language. All of these languages were written in cuneiform and each sign show a syllable. Another writing that Hittites used was Luwian writing which is also called hieroglyph. This hieroglyph used by Hittites was completely different from Egyptian hieroglyph and in this hieroglyph syllables even the words could be represented with only one sign. Hieroglyph was mostly preferred in big inscriptions such as stamps and stone monuments.

Literacy in Hittites was a skill belonging to a small group of people. The fact that the kings couldn’t read cuneiform can be found out with the ending “ read aloud” at the end of the letters. There are writings such as ; almanacs, ritual texts, historical documents relating to events, treaties, donation documents, letters which were written in cuneiform writing.  This writing was written on wet clay tablets with a pointed tool. The clay tablets ,especially the ones which burnt,  kept their formation very well upto now.  The presence of wooden and metal tablets are seen in the same writings. On the first metal tablet found in 1986 in Hattis , there is a treaty writing between Hittite King and Tarhantuşa King.