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Lycian A

Lycian A was an Indo-European language once spoken in Türkiye.

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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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Words in Lycian A

MeaningWordRomanization
horse𐊁𐊖𐊂𐊁esbe
two𐊋𐊂𐊆kbi
three𐊗𐊕𐊁𐊆trei
four𐊗𐊁𐊗𐊁𐊕𐊆teteri
I𐊚𐊎𐊒ẽmu

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