The Early Hittites and Other Anatolian Languages

Linguists have always believed that the early ancestors of those language families were either part of the same group or they lived in close proximity to each other. Around 28 hundred b c, some tribes within this group began to spread northward from modern hungary into modern austria and bavaria. And these appeard to be the ancestors of the celtic speaking tribes and the italic speaking tribes, which eventually produced latin. By two thousand b c, the hittites had penetrated into anatolia, where they soon established the hittite empire. But it's not until around 500 b c, several centuries later, that we can finally confirm that the earliest germanic