Mysian language

Mysian
Native toTurkey
RegionMysia
EthnicityMysians
Extinct1st century BC[1]
Mysian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3yms
yms
Glottologmysi1239

Mysian[a] was spoken by Mysians inhabiting Mysia in north-west Anatolia.

Little is known about the Mysian language. Strabo noted that it was, "in a way, a mixture of the Lydian and Phrygian languages".[2] As such, the Mysian language could be a language of the Anatolian or Phrygian group. However, a passage in Athenaeus suggests that the Mysian language was akin to the barely attested Paeonian language of Paeonia, north of Macedon. It is believed that along with Phrygian, the language was thought to have entered Anatolia from the Balkans.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Mysian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 2025-01-19. Before 1st Century AD.
  2. ^ Strabo. "Geography, Book XII, Chapter 8". LacusCurtius.


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