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Lycian
Lycian
was an
Indo-European
language, one of the
Anatolian languages
, that was spoken in the city-state of
Lycia
in
Anatolia
, present day
Turkey
. It became extinct around the
first century BC[?]
and was replaced by
Greek
. The language is known from a few brief inscriptions. Lycian had its own
alphabet
that was closely related to the
Greek alphabet
.
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