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Anatolian languages. The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia, part of present-day Turkey. The best known Anatolian language is Hittite, which is considered the earliest-attested Indo-European language.
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Lydian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language spoken...
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The major Anatolian languages included Hittite, Luwian, and...
- Lydian Language
Anatolian languages, extinct Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages spoken in Anatolia from sometime in the 3rd millennium bce until the early centuries of the present era, when they were gradually supplanted. By the late 20th century the term was most commonly used to designate the.
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Anatolian languages. The Anatolian languages were a branch of Indo-European languages. They are now extinct. They were spoken in Asia Minor (ancient Anatolia) in modern-day Turkey. There are three, or maybe four, known branches.
Anatolian languages, Branch of the Indo-European language family spoken in Anatolia from the 3rd millennium bce to the early centuries ce. The attested Anatolian languages are Hittite, Palaic, Cuneiform Luwian (Luvian), Hieroglyphic Luwian, Lycian, Lydian, Carian, and possibly Pisidian and Sidetic.
The Anatolian languages were a branch of Indo-European languages. They are now extinct. They were spoken in Asia Minor in modern-day Turkey. There are three, or maybe four, known branches.
The Anatolian languages reduce the three contrasting series of stop consonants inherited from Proto-Indo-European to two. One of these represents etymological voiceless stops and the other voiced stops, but the pronunciation in the attested languages is debatable. As first argued by linguist Jerzy Kuryłowicz in 1927, Hittite (as well as Palaic ...
