Anatolian hieroglyphs

Anatolian hieroglyphs
An inscription from Hama, in Anatolian hieroglyphs
Script type
Period
14th–7th centuries BC
DirectionLeft-to-right 
LanguagesHieroglyphic Luwian language
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Hluw (080), Anatolian Hieroglyphs (Luwian Hieroglyphs, Hittite Hieroglyphs)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Anatolian Hieroglyphs
U+14400–U+1467F

Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and the term Luwian hieroglyphs is used in English publications. 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 of hieroglyphs in Egypt. There is no demonstrable connection to Hittite cuneiform.