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Lycian language
Extinct Indo-European language of southwestern Anatolia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Lycian (disambiguation).
The Lycian language (๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Trmฬmili)[2] was the language of the ancient Lycians who occupied the Anatolian region known during the Iron Age as Lycia. Most texts date back to the fifth and fourth century BC. Two languages are known as Lycian: regular Lycian or Lycian A, and Lycian B or Milyan. Lycian became extinct around the beginning of the first century BC, replaced by the Ancient Greek language during the Hellenization of Anatolia. Lycian had its own alphabet, which was closely related to the Greek alphabet but included at least one character borrowed from Carian as well as characters proper to the language. The words were often separated by two points.
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Lycian | |
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๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Trmฬmili | |
![]() Xanthos stele with Lycian inscriptions | |
Native to | Lycia, Lycaonia |
Region | Southwestern Anatolia |
Ethnicity | Lycians |
Era | 500 โ ca. 200 BC[1] |
Early forms | |
Lycian script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xlc |
xlc | |
Glottolog | lyci1241 |
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