Sidetic language

Sidetic language

▪ ancient Turkish language
      one of the most sparsely documented of the ancient Anatolian languages, Sidetic was spoken in the ancient city of Side on the coast of Pamphylia. The language is known from a few coins and some half-dozen inscriptions, which appear to be votive in nature. The inscriptions date from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE; the coins are probably somewhat older. Patronymics (patronymic) with an -s suffix, and a word for ‘god' that is likely cognate with that of Luwian (Luwian language), Lycian (Lycian language), and Carian (Carian language), argue that Sidetic is an Indo-European language (Indo-European languages).

H. Craig Melchert
 

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