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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. The majority of those that can be understood are cultic in nature.
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 name of ...
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The Phrygian language is a branch of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to Greek and Thracian (Strabo 7.3.2; Neumann 1988). It is notably different from Luwian and Hittite, the principal Bronze Age Anatolian languages, suggesting that the Phrygian language was intrusive into Anatolia, introduced through immigration from ...
Legendary Kingdom. The Phrygians of Gordium created a large kingdom, which occupied the greater part of Turkey west of the river Halys. It was a real state, no longer a tribal society, as can be deduced from about 260 inscriptions in the Phrygian language, found in this heartland. There were contacts with Delphi in the west, note and with ...
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 ...
This chapter provides an overview of Phrygian history and its sources. It discusses the origins and language of the Phrygians and introduces the available text corpus. A section on Phrygia’s interaction with other peoples is followed by a more detailed look at two Phrygian cities, the capital Gordion and Kerkenes Dağ.
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).
