Talk:Muwatalli II
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Isn't this King often also called Muwatallish? Shouldn't something about this alternative name be mentioned? --Hibernian 04:17, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- it's not an alternative name, it's just an inflected form (the nominative). dab (𒁳) 12:16, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
I completely forgot about this page, anyway I've added in the alternate spellings, and created and additional redirect page for Muwatallish --Hibernian 04:41, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Plea for expansion
This is an amazingly short entry for the hero of the Battle of Kadesh. It may be expanded using material from other wikipedias (for example, Russian). --Ghirla-трёп- 15:30, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Name standardization
The possible spellings of Hittite names are too numerous to list all of them. The most popular methodology today is to use 's' for 'sh', and 'h' for the laryngeal. (In the past, these have been normalized as 'sh' and 'kh', but this has fallen by the wayside over time.) A third approach, but more difficult to achieve, is to use 'š' or even 'ş', and a character that isn't available in Wikipedia for the laryngeal (an 'h' with a cupped diacritical under it). It is also standard to show the root stem without the nominative 's' ending. This corresponds with how the Hittites themselves wrote names when they were not attempting to indicate case. Thus 'Muwatalli'. Variants such as 'Muwatallis' and 'Muwatallish' are easily recognized as the same name. Further complicating matters is the inconsistant use of reduplicated consonants, resulting in even more possible readings. Publik (talk) 17:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
