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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). Phrygian ethno-linguistic homogeneity is debatable.
- After the 5th century AD
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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.
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It is actually the very first known alphabet to feature proper vowels, 5 of them (A, E, I, O, Y), along with a further 14 consonants adding up to 19 letters overall, although they may have actually been 21 or even more as ‘X’ and ‘Φ’ for instance seem to be pronounced as an aspirated ‘k’ and ‘p’ respectively unlike what appears in the table.
Language Discovery. Phrygian has been confirmed by two discovered corpora, or collections of written texts, the Paleo-Phrygian and the Neo-Phrygian. These are separated into two stages, due to differences in writing systems, materials, and locations.
Many Phrygian words are theoretically known, however the meaning and etymologies and even the epigraphy of many Phrygian words (mostly taken from inscriptions) are still under debate. Known Phrygian traits include: Ensorption of indo-European sound occlus (*b, *d, *g, *g,, *g w (p, t, k):