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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AI-generated illustration of Lycian

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

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

All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
Lycian language 18
Lycian canonical 13
Lycian A 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

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

Lycian B ⓘ
linked to: Lycian II
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 ⓘ
partOf ancient Anatolian languages corpus ⓘ
regionOfUse Mediterranean coast of Anatolia ⓘ
scriptType alphabet ⓘ
spokenIn Lycia ⓘ
southwestern Anatolia ⓘ
southwestern Asia Minor ⓘ
subclassOf Anatolian languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
usedBy Lycian people ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
usedFor funerary texts ⓘ
legal inscriptions ⓘ
religious inscriptions ⓘ
royal inscriptions ⓘ
writingDirection left-to-right ⓘ
writingEvidence funerary inscriptions ⓘ
public inscriptions ⓘ
stone inscriptions ⓘ
writingSystem Lycian alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (41)

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

Anatolian languages → hasSubgroup → Lycian group ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Sidetic → isRelatedTo → Lycian ⓘ
Milyan → alsoKnownAs → Lycian B ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Hieroglyphic Luwian → closelyRelatedTo → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Luwic languages → hasMember → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian → hasDialect → Lycian A ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian → alsoKnownAs → Lycian A ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian → usedBy → Lycian people ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycia → knownFor → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycia → inhabitedBy → Lycians ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycia → hasLanguage → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Letoon → culture → Lycian ⓘ
Proto-Anatolian → ancestorOf → Lycian ⓘ
Lycian alphabet → writingSystemFor → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Luwic → hasSubgroup → Lycian group ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Carian language → relatedTo → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Luwians → linguisticallyRelatedTo → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Patara → languageUsed → Lycian ⓘ
Xanthos → languageInscribed → Lycian ⓘ
Sidetic language → hasNeighbouringLanguage → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian B → writingSystemFor → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian B → usedFor → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian B → differentFrom → Lycian A ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian B → UnicodeBlock → Lycian ⓘ
Luwic subgroup of Anatolian → hasMember → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Milyan language → isCloseTo → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Milyan language → sharesVocabularyWith → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Milyan language → sharesPhonologyWith → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Milyan language → sharesMorphologyWith → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Xanthos Valley → languageUsed → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian I → subclassOf → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycian I → alsoKnownAs → Standard Lycian ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Kekova → historicalPeriod → Lycian era ⓘ
linked to: Lycian
Lycians → spoke → Lycian language ⓘ
linked to: Lycian