ancient language
C1332
concept
An ancient language is a historically significant, no-longer-natively-spoken linguistic system preserved through inscriptions, manuscripts, and scholarly reconstruction.
Observed surface forms (6)
- unclassified language ×2
- Egyptian language ×1
- Etruscan text ×1
- Near Eastern language ×1
- ancient language variety ×1
- undeciphered language ×1
Instances (26)
- South Picene
- North Picene
- Sicel
- Old Persian
- Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis via concept surface "Etruscan text"
- Celtiberian
- Sanskrit
- Phoenician language
- Mycenaean Greek
- Hurrian
- Coptic language via concept surface "Egyptian language"
- Primitive Irish
- Etruscan language
- Lemnian language
- Prakrit
- Latin
- Sabaic
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Geez
surface form: Geʽez
- South Picene language
- Sentinelese language via concept surface "unclassified language"
- Elamite
- Paelignian language
- Raetic language
- Old Latin via concept surface "ancient language variety"
- Lepontic language
- North Picene language