Lycian

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Lycian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in southwestern Asia Minor and known from inscriptions dating to the first millennium BCE.

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Generate an image of Lycian (Lycian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in southwestern Asia Minor and known from inscriptions dating to the first millennium BCE.)

All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
Lycian language 18
Lycian canonical 13
Lycian A 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Anatolian language
Indo-European language
extinct language
alsoKnownAs Lycian A
linked to: Lycian
attestedFrom 5th century BCE
attestedUntil 4th century BCE
closelyRelatedTo Carian
Luwian
linked to: Cuneiform Luwian

Milyan
continent Asia
countryToday Turkey
derivedFrom Greek alphabet
documentedIn bilingual inscriptions with Greek
extinct true
geographicArea Teke Peninsula
hasCase accusative
dative
genitive
nominative
hasCaseSystem true
hasDialect Lycian A
linked to: Lycian

Lycian B
linked to: Lycian II
hasGenderSystem true
hasGrammaticalGender animate
inanimate
hasMorphologyType fusional
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (debated)
hasWordOrder verb-final (tendency)
ISO639-3 xlc
languageBranch Anatolian
languageFamily Indo-European
partOf ancient Anatolian languages corpus
regionOfUse Mediterranean coast of Anatolia
scriptType alphabet
spokenIn Lycia
southwestern Anatolia
southwestern Asia Minor
subclassOf Anatolian languages
Indo-European languages
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
usedBy Lycian people
linked to: Lycian
usedFor funerary texts
legal inscriptions
religious inscriptions
royal inscriptions
writingDirection left-to-right
writingEvidence funerary inscriptions
public inscriptions
stone inscriptions
writingSystem Lycian alphabet

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Referenced by (41)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Anatolian languages hasSubgroup Lycian group
linked to: Lycian
Sidetic isRelatedTo Lycian
Milyan alsoKnownAs Lycian B
linked to: Lycian
Hieroglyphic Luwian closelyRelatedTo Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Luwic languages hasMember Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Lycian hasDialect Lycian A
linked to: Lycian
Lycian alsoKnownAs Lycian A
linked to: Lycian
Lycian usedBy Lycian people
linked to: Lycian
Lycia knownFor Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Lycia inhabitedBy Lycians
linked to: Lycian
Lycia hasLanguage Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Letoon culture Lycian
Proto-Anatolian ancestorOf Lycian
Lycian alphabet writingSystemFor Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Luwic hasSubgroup Lycian group
linked to: Lycian
Carian language relatedTo Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Luwians linguisticallyRelatedTo Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Patara languageUsed Lycian
Xanthos languageInscribed Lycian
Sidetic language hasNeighbouringLanguage Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Lycian B writingSystemFor Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Lycian B usedFor Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Lycian B differentFrom Lycian A
linked to: Lycian
Lycian B UnicodeBlock Lycian
Luwic subgroup of Anatolian hasMember Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Milyan language isCloseTo Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Milyan language sharesVocabularyWith Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Milyan language sharesPhonologyWith Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Milyan language sharesMorphologyWith Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Xanthos Valley languageUsed Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Lycian I subclassOf Lycian language
linked to: Lycian
Lycian I alsoKnownAs Standard Lycian
linked to: Lycian
Kekova historicalPeriod Lycian era
linked to: Lycian
Lycians spoke Lycian language
linked to: Lycian