Anatolian languages facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Anatolian |
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| Ethnicity: | Anatolians |
| Geographic distribution: |
formerly in Anatolia |
| Linguistic classification: | Indo-European
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| Proto-language: | Proto-Anatolian |
| Subdivisions: |
Hittite
Palaic
Lydian
Luwic
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The Anatolian languages were a branch of Indo-European languages. They are now extinct. They were spoken in Asia Minor (ancient Anatolia) in modern-day Turkey. There are three, or maybe four, known branches.
Branches
Melchert (2012) has organised them like this:
- Proto-Anatolian
- Hittite
- Palaic
- Luwic
- Luwian
- Lycian
- Milyan
- Carian
- Sidetic
- Pisidian
- (?) Lydian
Images for kids
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Inscriptions in Sidetic language, exhibits of the Museum of Side, Turkey
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