The recently discovered language remains largely incomprehensible, but researchers said it belongs to the Indo-European family.
Archaeologists have recently discovered a previously unknown ancient language from an ancient tablet during excavations in Turkey.
Just under half the world's population speaks an Indo-European language, which are native to most of Europe, the Iranian plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some of the most widely spoken Indo-European languages are English, Hindi, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, German, Punjabi and Bengali.
Excavations have been taking place at Boğazköy-Hattusha for more than century under the direction of the German Archaeological Institute .
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