1. The name may derive from the Luwian adjective ala- ("high").

2. Still later Ḥamāh —the southernmost Luwian city—became an important Aramaean power in combination with Aleppo.

3. One proposal derives it from a hypothetical Luwian word, *kursatta (cf. kursawar "island", kursattar "cutting, sliver").

4. Shevoroshkin have established that the language of the Carians belongs to the Hittite-Luwian (Luvian) group of Indo-European languages.

5. The Carian language is an extinct language of the Luwian subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family