A Grammar of the Hittite Language: Part 2: Tutorial

Très bon manuel - très clair même pour un francophone - Très bon ouvrage de début et très complet. Pour les hittitologues confirmés un bon manuel de référence pour revoir les points de grammaire.

Part 2 is a handsomely produced book, but it cannot be used by itself. It contains a dozen lessons, each with a vocabulary list, sentences to be translated, and a listing of sections in the Grammar volume (Part 1 of this work) to be reviewed first. This would be better titled a Workbook on Hittite Grammar rather than a Tutorial. There is also no key with answers for the exercises.

Great help in learning Hittite!

Exercise book to Hoffner & Melchert, Grammar of the Hittite Language, Vol. 1, Reference Grammar, to which it is an indispensable aid. It presents fourteen lessons, in a fixed format. Each lesson starts with advice on which parts of the reference grammar to study for the exercise, and how. This is followed by fifteen sentences to translate, most of them made up by the authors, but a considerable number taken from actual inscriptions. The pertinent vocabulary, in three parts: Hittite, Sumerograms, and Akkadograms, closes the lesson. No full translations of the sentences are provided, but most sentences come with translation hints. A combined vocabulary, again in three parts, terminates the booklet. I don't know why they call it a `tutorial'. A tutorial is something else in my dictionary.