Anatolian languages

The Anatolian languages were a branch of Indo-European languages. They are now extinct. They were spoken in Asia Minor (ancient Anatolia) in modern-day Turkey. There are three, or maybe four, known branches.

Anatolian
Ethnicity:	Anatolians
Geographic distribution:	formerly in Anatolia
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Anatolian
Proto-language:	Proto-Anatolian
Subdivisions:	Hittite Palaic Lydian Luwic

Branches

Melchert (2012) has organised them like this:

• Proto-Anatolian
  • Hittite
  • Palaic
  • Luwic
    • Luwian
    • Lycian
    • Milyan
    • Carian
    • Sidetic
    • Pisidian
  • (?) Lydian

Anatolian Languages Media

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  Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic–Caspian steppe

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  Own work, based on following source: * * Kloekhorst, Alwin (2022). "Anatolian". In Olander, Thomas (ed.). The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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  The Hittite Empire at its greatest extent under Suppiluliuma I (c. 1350–1322 BC) and Mursili II (c. 1321–1295 BC)

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  Area where the 2nd millennium BC Luwian language was spoken

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  Inscriptions in Sidetic language, exhibits of the Museum of Side, Turkey