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Phrygian
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dialect of Indo-European language spoken by the Phrygians
Key facts
- Region
- Central Anatolia (in modern Turkey )
- Ethnicity
- Phrygians
- Extinct
- After the 5th century CE
- Language family
- Indo-European (?) Graeco-Phrygian Phrygian
- Dialects
- (?) Mysian
- Writing system
- Phrygian alphabet , Greek alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- xpg
- Linguist list
- xpg
- Glottolog
- phry1239
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Phrygian language (/ˈfrɪdʒiən/ ) was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, spoken in Anatolia (in modern Turkey), during classical antiquity (c. 8th century BCE to 5th century CE).
Phrygian ethno-linguistic homogeneity is debatable. 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 a name of a single "tribe" or "people". Plato observed that some Phrygian words resembled Greek ones.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phrygian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.