Indian Culture (Journal of the Indian Research Institute) April - June 1945

The excellent character of this new Journal and the high standard of articles published in it and the enterprise and devotion of the group of the Bengali scholars seem to make Indian Culture rightly and completely fill the great void created by the unfortunate discontinuance of the great epoch-making Journal the Indian Antiquary. [...] The names of the Chattish the Charrish the Luvian and the Palaish language are Therefore guaranteed by the texts themselves. [...] The texts use the term hattili only to designate the Chattish language; a proper designation of the Indo-European Hittite language cannot be found in them Only in one passage the word naili (adverb in -li as in hattili etc.) is used of this language but the evidence of this sole passage is hardly sufficient to decide the proper designation of the language concerned. [...] A...peculiar practice of the Hittite scribes which greatly facilitated the understanding of the sense of the texts proveg moreover to be an insuperable difficulty in the w'ay of fixing the sound-values of some of the most important Hittite words. [...] The name of the people speaking this language was formerly taken to be Charri and the term Charri was even supposed to be somehow connected with the designation of the Aryans; Ungnad however prefers the readiig Charri and connects the term with the Hurrites of pre-Israelite Catbaaia..