Lycian
E38854
Lycian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in southwestern Asia Minor and known from inscriptions dating to the first millennium BCE.
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.
this entity surface form:
Lycian A
this entity surface form:
Lycian B
this entity surface form:
Lycian language
this entity surface form:
Lycian A
this entity surface form:
Lycian language
this entity surface form:
Lycian language
this entity surface form:
Lycian group
this entity surface form:
Lycians