Alexandra Aikhenvald earned her undergraduate degree from Moscow State University, with a thesis on Anatolian languages ( Berber Languages " ( 1984 ).
12.
The palatals, velars, and labiovelars all remain distinct before front vowels, a conservation found otherwise in Luvian and related Anatolian languages.
13.
It is not presently known whether these represent peculiarly pre-Lydian developments in or the retention of archaic features lost in other Anatolian languages.
14.
Therefore Palaic is thought to belong to the Anatolian languages, although whether as a sister language to Old Hittite or Cuneiform Luwian is unknown.
15.
By the time of MithridatesVI Eupator, Greek was the official language of the Kingdom though Anatolian languages continued to be spoken in the interior.
16.
However, recent decipherment of Lydian and its classification as an Anatolian language mean that Etruscan and Lydian were not even part of the same language family.
17.
The records show a gradual rise to power of the Anatolian language speakers over the native Hattians, until at last the kingship became an Anatolian privilege.
18.
Proto-Indo-European laryngeals survived as consonants only in Anatolian languages but left plenty of traces of their former presence ( see laryngeal theory ).
19.
Italic and especially Celtic also share some distinctive features with the Hittite language ( an Anatolian language ) and the Tocharian languages, and these features are certainly archaisms.
20.
In the Armenian hypothesis of Indo-European origins, this culture ( and perhaps that of the Maykop culture ) is identified with the speakers of the Anatolian languages.
