Lycian

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Lycian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in southwestern Asia Minor and known from inscriptions dating to the first millennium BCE.

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Observed surface forms (6)

Surface form Occurrences
Lycian language 4
Lycian A 2
Lycian B 1
Lycian group 1
Lycian people 1
Lycians 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Anatolian language
Indo-European language
extinct language
alsoKnownAs Lycian
surface form: Lycian A
attestedFrom 5th century BCE
attestedUntil 4th century BCE
closelyRelatedTo Carian
Cuneiform Luwian
surface form: Luwian

Milyan
continent Asia
countryToday Turkey
derivedFrom Greek alphabet
documentedIn bilingual inscriptions with Greek
extinct true
geographicArea Teke Peninsula
hasCase accusative
dative
genitive
nominative
hasCaseSystem true
hasDialect Lycian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lycian A

Lycian II
surface form: Lycian B
hasGenderSystem true
hasGrammaticalGender animate
inanimate
hasMorphologyType fusional
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (debated)
hasWordOrder verb-final (tendency)
ISO639-3 xlc
languageBranch Anatolian
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European
partOf ancient Anatolian languages corpus
regionOfUse Mediterranean coast of Anatolia
scriptType alphabet
spokenIn Lycia
southwestern Anatolia
southwestern Asia Minor
subclassOf Anatolian languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
usedBy Lycian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lycian people
usedFor funerary texts
legal inscriptions
religious inscriptions
royal inscriptions
writingDirection left-to-right
writingEvidence funerary inscriptions
public inscriptions
stone inscriptions
writingSystem Lycian alphabet

Referenced by (12)

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

Lycian alsoKnownAs Lycian
this entity surface form: Lycian A
Milyan alsoKnownAs Lycian
this entity surface form: Lycian B
this entity surface form: Lycian language
Lycian hasDialect Lycian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lycian A
Lycia hasLanguage Lycian
this entity surface form: Lycian language
Luwic languages hasMember Lycian
this entity surface form: Lycian language
this entity surface form: Lycian group
Lycia inhabitedBy Lycian
this entity surface form: Lycians
Sidetic isRelatedTo Lycian
Lycia knownFor Lycian
this entity surface form: Lycian language
Lycian usedBy Lycian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lycian people