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Lycian language Inscriptions in Lycian language, from the Lion Tomb, Kas, Turkey.

Lycian language

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H. Craig Melchert
A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles. Author of Anatolian Historical Phonology, Cuneiform Luvian...
H. Craig Melchert
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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...

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