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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
Phrygians. 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 ...
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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.
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.
Phrygian was an Indo-European language related to Dacian and Thracian and belonging to the Paleo-Balkan branch of languages. It was spoken in Central Asia Minor until about the 5th century AD. The earliest known inscriptions in Phyrgian date from the 8th century BC and were written in an alphabet derived from Phoenician.
The Phrygians and their language. 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).
Keywords. Most of what is known about Phrygian archaeology and its language derives from excavations at the capital city Gordion, located about sixty miles southwest of the modern Turkish capital of Ankara.