Lydian

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Lydian is an extinct Indo-European language once spoken in the ancient kingdom of Lydia in western Anatolia.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Lydian language 4

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Anatolian language
Indo-European language
extinct language
associatedPeople Lydian Kingdom
surface form: Lydians
attestedIn coins
funerary inscriptions
inscriptions
votive inscriptions
chronology first millennium BCE
closelyRelatedTo Hittite (Nesite)
surface form: Hittite

Luwians
surface form: Luwian
countryInAntiquity Lydian Kingdom
surface form: Kingdom of Lydia
culturalContext Achaemenid Empire
surface form: Achaemenid period Anatolia

pre-Classical Anatolia
extinctionPeriod 1st millennium BCE
geographicContext Asia Minor
hasGrammaticalCategory grammatical gender
noun cases
verb tenses
languageBranch Luwic subgroup
languageCodeISO639-3 xld
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European
linguisticResearchField Anatolian linguistics
mainArchaeologicalSite Sardis
morphologicalFeature case system
gender distinction
verbal inflection
neighboringLanguages Carian
Greeks
surface form: Greek

Phrygian
phonologicalFeature nasalized vowels
region Lydia
Anatolia
surface form: western Anatolia
scriptDirection right-to-left
scriptType alphabetic script
status extinct
subfamily Anatolian branch
usedIn funerary epitaphs
religious dedications
royal inscriptions
writingMaterial coinage
metal
stone
writingSystem Lydian alphabet
writingSystemOrigin derived from Greek alphabet
writingSystemUnicodeBlock Lydian (U+10920–U+1093F)

Referenced by (7)

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

this entity surface form: Lydian language
Luwic languages hasMember Lydian
this entity surface form: Lydian language
Palaic isRelatedTo Lydian
Lydian Kingdom language Lydian
this entity surface form: Lydian language
Luwic languages relatedTo Lydian
this entity surface form: Lydian language