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.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Lycian canonical 9
Lycian language 7
Lycian A 2

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 (23)

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