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Key facts
- Native to
- Lycia , Lycaonia
- Region
- Southwestern Anatolia
- Ethnicity
- Lycians
- Era
- 500 – ca. 200 BC
- Language family
- Indo-European Anatolian Luwo - Lydian Luwo - Palaic Luwic Lyco-Carian Lycian– Sidetic Lycian
- Early forms
- Proto-Indo-European Proto-Anatolian
- Writing system
- Lycian script
- Iso 639 3
- xlc
- Linguist list
- xlc
- Glottolog
- lyci1241
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- Lycian inscription at Xanthos.jpg
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The Lycian language (𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊍𐊆 Trm̃mili) was the language of the ancient Lycians who occupied the Anatolian region known during the Iron Age as Lycia. Most texts date back to the fifth and fourth century BC. Two languages are known as Lycian: regular Lycian or Lycian A, and Lycian B or Milyan. Lycian became extinct around the beginning of the first century BC, replaced by the Ancient Greek language during the Hellenization of Anatolia. Lycian had its own alphabet, which was closely related to the Greek alphabet but included at least one character borrowed from Carian as well as characters proper to the language. The words were often separated by two points.
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