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Phrygian poetry is rare. The only examples date from after Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia Minor (334 BCE), and they probably originated in imitation of Greek metrical epitaphs. The clearest example is the so-called "Middle Phrygian" inscription mentioned above, which consists of six dactylic hexameter lines.
- After the 5th century AD
As has been said in this thread, it does look like that Mysian inscription could be in the Phrygian language or that the Mysian language may be otherwise similar to Phrygian. Honestly, though, the two clear IE words in that inscription (brother and father) could be from just about any IE language of the time, couldn't they?
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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 ...
2.1 Main Typological Features and Parts of Speech. Indo-European languages of the most archaic type (best represented by Ancient Greek and the two Old Indo-Iranian languages Old Indic—in particular the Vedic variety—and Avestan) have rich fusional morphologies with predominant use of suffixation and ablaut (i.e., alternation involving vowels or vowel-sonorant sequences) as formal devices ...
The Phrygian language. Phrygian is one of the oldest and least attested Indo-European languages. It is far from being completely understood and decipherment is still in progress. Unlike other poorly attested languages, Phrygian has written records in the Phrygian and later the Greek alphabet.
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 ...
Phrygian: language of the ancient Phrygians. Very likely, but not certainly, a sister group to Hellenic. Sicel: an ancient language spoken by the Sicels (Greek Sikeloi, Latin Siculi), one of the three indigenous (i.e. pre-Greek and pre-Punic) tribes of Sicily. Proposed relationship to Latin or proto-Illyrian (Pre-Indo-European) at an earlier stage.
