Anatolian hieroglyphs

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Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs, known from hundreds of inscriptions. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and so the term Luwian hieroglyphs is increasingly also used to describe them correctly. They are typologically similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs, but do not derive graphically from that script, and they are not known to have played the sacred role as did hieroglyphs in Egypt. There is no demonstrable connection to Hittite cuneiform.

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