I’m fully aware that Luwian was a minor language in the Hittite Empire. Also, I know that every theory of mine ignores Sumerian, Hattic, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Indian Cuneiform styles. I believe the Indo-European cultures developed (and left a physical record) for one reason. They were extremely hierarchical, and formed a stratified society that siphoned the resources from many to benefit a few. Efficient taxation allowed for a complex society, as well as a written scribal language and a large army. Unfortunately, complex societies are also the weakest. A single drought, famine, war, or peasant riot could collapse an Indo-European culture. You see, any organism of significant size risks a cascading failure from a single systemic failure. In other words, when 99% of the population lead the majority, society can collapse from any incident that questions the basis of social equity. The extreme efficiency of Indo-European society led to a quick expansion into massive kingdoms, but entropic weaknesses would usually cause total destruction about every 500 years. Then, in a different location in the empire, another Aryan group would eventually gain dominance. This is why archeologists have such problems defining the Indo-European language line. It spread over enormous areas, but usually remained a small language spoken by a small ruling class. Cuneiform was an administrative writing style, resulting from quick strokes of a reed stylus in wet clay. It was a bureaucratic system, developed for Semitic languages in the Middle East and only later adopted by the Hittite States as an efficient way to keep records. Luwian was the language of trade and royal treaties, and more accurately relates the ruling class to the kingdoms that surround it.
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