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The Phrygian language (/ ˈ f r ɪ dʒ i ə n /) was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, spoken in Anatolia (modern Turkey), during classical antiquity (c. 8th century BCE to 5th century CE).
v. t. e. The Phrygians ( Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity. Ancient Greek authors used "Phrygian" as an umbrella term to describe a vast ethno-cultural complex located mainly in the central areas of Anatolia rather than a ...
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 ...
Sep 5, 2019 · Phrygia was the name of an ancient Anatolian kingdom (12th-7th century BCE) and, following its demise, the term was then applied to the general geographical area it once covered in the western plateau of Asia Minor. With its capital at Gordium and a culture which curiously mixed Anatolian, Greek, and Near Eastern elements, one of the kingdom's ...
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In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( / ˈfrɪdʒiə / FRIJ-ee-ə; Phrygian: 𐊩𐌏𐌛𐊅𐊄𐌌, [6] romanized: Gordum; Ancient Greek: Φρυγία, Phrygía) was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. After its conquest, it became a region of the great empires of the time.
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 ...
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Mar 23, 2023 · Beyond these text witnesses, the Phrygian language is documented in some thirty glosses preserved in Greek texts. The Old Phrygian corpus consists of almost 400 texts from a wide area across Phrygia and encompasses different text genres, such as dedications and other religious texts, diplomatic documents, and many graffiti, dating from the ...
