Lydian

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

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lydian language 13
Lydian canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

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

Luwian
linked to: Luwians
countryInAntiquity Kingdom of Lydia
linked to: Lydian Kingdom
culturalContext Achaemenid period Anatolia
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

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
linguisticResearchField Anatolian linguistics
mainArchaeologicalSite Sardis
morphologicalFeature case system
gender distinction
verbal inflection
neighboringLanguages Carian
Greek
linked to: Greeks

Phrygian
phonologicalFeature nasalized vowels
region Lydia
western Anatolia
linked to: 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)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (18)

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

Palaic isRelatedTo Lydian
Hieroglyphic Luwian closelyRelatedTo Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Luwic languages hasMember Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Luwic languages relatedTo Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Lydian Kingdom language Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Lydia language Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Anatolian studies studies Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Proto-Anatolian ancestorOf Lydian
Luwians linguisticallyRelatedTo Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Nesite relatedTo Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Ardys II languageOfEnvironment Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Sadyattes languageOfCourt Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Alyattes II nativeLanguage Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Mermnad dynasty languageUsed Lydian language
linked to: Lydian
Heraclid dynasty languageContext Lydian language
linked to: Lydian