Extinct Indo-European language of southwestern Anatolia
For other uses, see Lycian (disambiguation).
Lycian
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐Trmฬmili
Xanthos stele with Lycian inscriptions
Native to
Lycia, Lycaonia
Region
Southwestern Anatolia
Ethnicity
Lycians
Era
500 โ ca. 200 BC[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Anatolian
Luwo-Lydian
Luwo-Palaic
Luwic
Lyco-Carian
LycianโSidetic
Lycian
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Anatolian
Writing system
Lycian script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
xlc
Linguist List
xlc
Glottolog
lyci1241
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The Lycian language (๐๐๐๐๐๐๐Trmฬmili)[2] was the language of the ancient Lycians who occupied the Anatolian region known during the Iron Age as Lycia. Most texts date back to the fifth and fourth century BC. Two languages are known as Lycian: regular Lycian or Lycian A, and Lycian B or Milyan.
Lycian became extinct around the beginning of the first century BC, replaced by the Ancient Greek language during the Hellenization of Anatolia. Lycian had its own alphabet, which was closely related to the Greek alphabet but included at least one character borrowed from Carian as well as characters proper to the language. The words were often separated by two points.
fifth and fourth century BC. Two languages are known as Lycian: regular Lycian or Lycian A, and Lycian B or Milyan. Lycian became extinct around the beginning...
symbols instead of the intended characters. The Lycian alphabet was used to write the Lycianlanguage of the Asia Minor region of Lycia. It was an extension...
Lycians (Greek: ฮฯฮบฮนฮฟฮน, romanized:ย Lรบkioi) is the name of various peoples who lived, at different times, in Lycia, a geopolitical area in Anatolia (also...
sometimes, Lycian 2; the Lycian alphabet, used to write the Lycianlanguage; Lycian (Unicode block), the Unicode characters comprising the Lycian script Lucian...
was populated by speakers of Luwic languages. Written records began to be inscribed in stone in the Lycianlanguage after Lycia's involuntary incorporation...
Milyan, also known as Lycianย B and previously Lycianย 2, is an extinct ancient Anatolian language. It is attested from three inscriptions: two poems of...
The Lycian Way (Turkish: Likya Yolu) is a marked long-distance hiking trail in southwestern Turkey around part of the coast of ancient Lycia. It is approximately...
to be bilingual in Greek and Lycian; however the identification of a verse in another, closely related language, a "Lycian B" identified now as Milyan...
The following phonemes are expressed in the Old Persian script: Notes: Lycian ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Kizzaprรฑna ~ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Zisaprรฑna for (genuine)...
appearances of the Lycian sites. In addition, numerous inscriptions in the Lycianlanguage state some place names in their Lycian forms. The topographical...
Da-ri-ya-(h)u-(รบ-)iลก, Akkadian Da-(a-)ri-muลก, Egyptian tr(w)ลก, trjwลก, intr(w)ลก, intrjwลก, Lycian รtarijeus-, and Old Persian Dฤrayauลก, are short forms of Old Pers. ๐ญ๐ ๐ผ๐น๐บ๐ข๐...
trilingual, or Xanthos trilingual, is an inscription in three languages: standard Lycian or Lycian A, Greek, and Aramaic covering the faces of a four-sided...
The three languages are Ancient Greek, Lycian and Milyan (the last two are Anatolian languages and were previously known as Lycian A and Lycian B respectively)...
Lydian language is usually not categorized as part of the Luwic subgroup, unlike the other nearby Anatolian languages Luwian, Carian, and Lycian. Lydian...
Whether the correspondences between Luwian, Carian, and Lycian are due to direct descent (i.e. a language family as represented by a tree-model), or are due...
sometimes confused with Telmessos in Caria. It was called Telebehi in the Lycianlanguage. The well-protected harbor of Telmessos is separated from the Gulf...
Xanthos or Xanthus, also referred to by scholars as Arna, its Lycian name, (Turkish: Ksantos, Lycian: ๐๐๐๐๐ Arรฑna, Greek: ฮฮฌฮฝฮธฮฟฯ, Latin: Xanthus) was an...
single language or two closely related languages. Several other Anatolian languages โ particularly Carian, Lycian, and Milyan (also known as Lycian B or...
media related to Cyaneae. Cyaneae (Ancient Greek: ฮฯ ฮฑฮฝฮญฮฑฮน, [ky.a.nรฉ.aiฬฏ]; Lycian: ๐๐๐๐ Xban-), also spelled Kyaneai or Cyanae, was a town of ancient...
alphabet in form, but have different values. The Lycian script, an alphabet recording the Lycianlanguage from the 5th to 4th centuries BCE. The Sidetic...
ISBNย 978-0-521-39830-5. Kazansky, Nikolai (2012-01-01). "The Evidence for Lycian in the Linear A Syllabary". FS Gregory Nagy Online. Awol - the Ancient World...
Greek name is on a 4th-century-BCE inscription. Initially settled by the Lycians, the city was occupied by the Persians during the 6th centuryย BCE. It rose...
greatly to a greater understanding of the Lycianlanguage. The text is unusual, in that, unlike most Lycian texts, it does not consist of consists of...
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