Lycian

The lycian is a language of the Indo-European family, and more precisely Anatolian Langue, of Ve and IVe century before Jesus-Christ, primarily known by a discovered stele with Xanthe carrying a trilingual inscription in Greek, Araméen and Lycien. Derived from the Louvite, one generally distinguishes two forms from them:

  • the milyen or lycian B , more antiquated and having kept many features of the Louvite, known by a reduced number of inscriptions;
  • the ordinary lycian or lycian has , more recent, training the majority of the inscriptions.

This language is attested on the southern part of the modern Turkey and extinct, by the Greek was supplanted, that in Ier century before the Christian era. It uses its own alphabet, the Alphabet lycian, which is a derivative of the Greek alphabet.

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