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Lycian language
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- Indo-European languages
- Anatolian languages
Lycian language, one of the ancient Anatolian languages. Evidence for Lycian consists of more than 150 inscriptions on stone, some 200 on coins, and a handful on other objects. While a few of the coins may be earlier, the texts on stone all date from the 5th and 4th centuries bce. All but a few of these are tomb inscriptions with stereotypical contents. An important exception is an inscribed stela from Xanthus, the Lycian capital city; it describes the exploits of a dynastic family, but problems of vocabulary have limited scholars’ understanding of this text. Two other Lycian texts are ...(100 of 265 words)