Luwic

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Luwic is a branch of the Anatolian group of Indo-European languages that includes languages such as Luwian and Milyan, once spoken in ancient Anatolia.

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Label Occurrences
Luwic canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Anatolian languages
subgroup of Indo-European languages
closelyRelatedTo Hittite
linked to: Luwians

Palaic
geographicDistribution coastal western Anatolia
interior southern Anatolia
southwestern Anatolia
hasCharacteristic agglutinative-like morphology within Indo-European framework
centum-like treatment of some Indo-European consonants (in some members)
use of clitic chains
hasSubgroup Carian-Sidetic-Pisidian group
Luwian proper
linked to: Luwians

Lycian group
linked to: Lycian
historicalRegion Anatolia
Asia Minor
includes Carian
Cuneiform Luwian
Hieroglyphic Luwian
Luwian
linked to: Cuneiform Luwian

Lycian
Milyan
Pisidian
Sidetic
influenced personal names in ancient Anatolia
toponymy of Anatolia
languageBranch Anatolian
languageFamily Indo-European
memberOf Indo-European language family
namedAfter Luwian
linked to: Cuneiform Luwian
partOf Anatolian languages
reconstructedFrom bilingual texts
inscriptions
onomastic evidence
spokenIn ancient Anatolia
southern Anatolia
western Anatolia
linked to: Western Anatolia
status extinct
studiedInDiscipline Anatolian linguistics
Indo-European studies
historical linguistics
subgroupOf Anatolian branch of Indo-European
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
2nd millennium BCE
writingSystems Anatolian hieroglyphs
linked to: Hieroglyphic Luwian

Greek alphabet (for some Luwic languages)
cuneiform

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

Milyan linguisticSubgroup Luwic