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The Phrygian epigraphical material is divided into two distinct subcorpora, Old Phrygian and New Phrygian. These attest different stages of the Phrygian language, are written with different alphabets and upon different materials, and have different geographical distributions. Old Phrygian is attested in 395 inscriptions in Anatolia and beyond.
Anatolian languages. Phrygian language, ancient Indo-European language of west-central Anatolia. Textual evidence for Phrygian falls into two distinct groups. Old Phrygian texts date from the 8th to 3rd centuries bce and are written in an alphabet related to but different from that of Greek. The majority of those that can be understood are ...
The Old Phrygian Alphabet. The Old Phrygian alphabet emerges towards the late ninth century BC and was the script employed in Phrygian texts, as attested in near 400 inscriptions found in Anatolia and beyond, as far as around 330 BC when it was supplanted by the Neo-Phrygian (rightmost column). It is actually the very first known alphabet to ...
Sep 5, 2019 · The Phrygian language, as attested by inscriptions, was still in use in the 3rd century CE, although it is called New Phrygian by historians to distinguish it from the Old Phrygian used when the kingdom itself was in existence (the link between the two was likely created by the language being spoken only as a vernacular in the interim).
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1. Sound Changes from Old Phrygian to New Phrygian in an Areal Context. Aljoša Šorgo, Universiteit Leiden. The Phrygian language is attested in two phases: 1) Old Phrygian (8th to 4th century BCE), written in a native alphabet; and 2) New Phrygian (2nd to 3rd century CE), written in the Greek alphabet. The Old Phrygian phonemic system.
The emergence of the Phrygian script coincides, relatively, with the same period as the birth of the Hellenic alphabet; however, the oldest known Phrygian documents are dated earlier than the first Hellenic ones. The Phrygians used an alphabetic language of Old and New Phrygian. There are 250 documents in old Phrygian dated from 8 th to 3 rd ...
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Mar 23, 2023 · The Phrygian language is preserved in two inscription corpora: the earlier Old Phrygian inscriptions recorded in a local alphabet, and the later Neo-Phrygian inscriptions written with the closely related Greek alphabet. While the scripts differ, the language recorded is the same.
