[6] Due to allophone variation over time (and exposure to different language speakers), the linguist Robert S. P. Beekes determined "P/Bla" to be the correct reading of Hittite Pal.

[15] It has been speculated that Palaic-speakers were never literate, that Hittite scribes relied upon syllabary to incorporate their traditions into the state cult[3] and that they may have entered Anatolia as early as 3000 BC.

[20] They mention Pala as one of two bordering lands (the other being Luwiya) where the people spoke a different language[21] and where "different treatment was applied when a felony over which Hatti had jurisdiction was perpetrated outside of the boundaries of the kingdom.

"[3]In the absence of written records there are only the concentrations of "b/p-l"[7] toponyms and ethnonyms of uncertain origin emenating from west of the Kızılırmak: Classical Blaene,[12] Bolu,[22] Balikesir,[23] Istanbul,[24] Buldan,[25] Bala,[26] Bolvadin,[27] Hapalla,[28] and Pelasgians[29] among others.

[30] Curiously the Black Sea toponym contains the "b/p-l" phoneme, has no convincing origin for the name and may be an example of Hungarian folk etymology applied to a prior ethnonym for the region.

[33] Historians have historically considered this the end of the Palaic peoples,[34] though the area was still referred to as 'the land of Pala" as late as the reign of Muršili II (1330–1295 BCE).