Sidetic language

Sidetic language

Infobox Language
name=Sidetic
region=Ancient southwestern Anatolia
extinct=Third century BCE
iso2=ine
iso3=xsd
familycolor=Indo-European
fam1=Anatolian
fam2=Luwian subgroup
script=Sidetic script
The Sidetic language is a member of the extinct Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family known from legends of coins dating to the period of approx. the 5th to 3rd centuries BC found in Side at the Pamphylian coast. The Greek historian Arrian mentions the existence of a peculiar indigenous language in the city of Side.Sidetic was probably closely related to Lydian, Carian and Lycian.

ee also

*Pisidian language


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