Pisidian language

The Pisidian language is a member of the extinct Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family spoken in Pisidia, a region of ancient Asia Minor. Known from some thirty short inscriptions from the first to second centuries CE, it appears to be closely related to Lycian and Sidetic.

Pisidian
RegionPisidia, ancient southwestern Anatolia
Extinctafter the second century CE
Pisidian script
Language codes
ISO 639-3xps
xps
Glottologpisi1234[1]

Pisidian personal name Δωτάρι Dotari may reflect the Indo-European root for "daughter".[2]

See also

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pisidian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Blažek, Václav. “Indo-European kinship terms in *-ə̯2TER.” (2001). p. 25.


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