Palaic

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Palaic is an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language once spoken in north-central Anatolia, known primarily from limited cuneiform texts.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Pisidian language 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Anatolian language
Indo-European language
extinct language
associatedWith Pala region
attestedIn Hittite cuneiform texts
cuneiform tablets
belongsToBranch Palaic branch of Anatolian
evidenceType written records only
extinctionStatus extinct
glottocode pala1347
grammaticalType fusional language
hasAlternativeName Palaic language
Palaite
hasAncestor Proto-Anatolian
Proto-Indo-European
hasCaseSystem true
hasGenderDistinction common-neuter
hasLimitedDocumentation true
hasMorphology inflectional
hasNoNativeSpeakers true
hasPhonologicalFeature laryngeal reflexes similar to other Anatolian languages
hasWordOrder SOV
historicalPeriod 2nd millennium BCE
ISO639-3 plq
isRelatedTo Carian
Hittite (Nesite)
surface form: Hittite

Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Cuneiform Luwian
surface form: Luwian

Lycian
Lydian
knownFrom limited textual corpus
ritual texts
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European
linguisticStatus poorly attested
reconstructedFrom cuneiform sources
region Hittite Empire
north-central Anatolia
scriptType cuneiform script
spokenIn Anatolia
Asia Minor
Central Anatolia Region
surface form: north-central Anatolia
studiedInDiscipline Anatolian linguistics
Indo-European studies
historical linguistics
subfamily Anatolian
usedBy Palaic-speaking population
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem cuneiform

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Luwic languages hasMember Palaic
this entity surface form: Pisidian language