Dating the final IE unity

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>maxdashu at LanMinds.Com writes:

<< Or are non-IE languages other than Hurrian known in Anatolia? >>

-- several, depending on your definitions. (Eg., Hattic, which was probably
extinct except as a learned language by the 14th century BCE.)  The Hittite
royal archives included extensive texts in six languages!

The situation during the Imperial Hittite period seems to have been that the
Hittite-Luvian-Palaic complex occupied western and parts of central Anatolia,
with Hurrian (and presumably the related proto-Urartian) to the east and
south, and various little-known but probably non-IE languages to the east and
northeast.

Nobody seems to know what the "Kaska people" directly to the northeast of
Hattusas spoke, for example, despite extensive contact (they sacked and
burned the Hittite capital at least twice).