Mysian | |
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Native to | Turkey |
Region | Mysia |
Ethnicity | Mysians |
Extinct | 1st century BC[1] |
Indo-European
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Mysian alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yms |
yms | |
Glottolog | mysi1239 |
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]
Before 1st Century AD.
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