• Lydian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language spoken in the region of Lydia, in western Anatolia (now in Turkey). The language is attested in graffiti...
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    region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group. Questions raised regarding their...
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    Lydia (redirect from Lydian Empire)
    The ethnic group inhabiting this kingdom are known as the Lydians, and their language as Lydian and their capital was Sardis. The Kingdom of Lydia existed...
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    intended characters. Lydian script was used to write the Lydian language. Like other scripts of Anatolia in the Iron Age, the Lydian alphabet is based on...
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  • Lydian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lydian may refer to: Lydians, an ancient people of Anatolia Lydian language, an ancient Anatolian language...
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    understanding of the language and, second, to a number of features not shared with any other Anatolian language. The Lydian language is attested in graffiti...
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  • September 2019, it was announced that Lydian would make his debut as a film composer with the Malayalam-language fantasy film Barroz: Guardian of D'Gama's...
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    Sardis (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    Sardis (/ˈsɑːrdɪs/ SAR-diss) or Sardes (/ˈsɑːrdiːs/ SAR-deess; Lydian: 𐤳𐤱𐤠𐤭, romanized: Sfar; Ancient Greek: Σάρδεις, romanized: Sárdeis; Old Persian:...
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    the Lydian language was in use. The name Lydia has been derived from the name Luwiya (Lydian *lūda- < *luw(i)da- < luwiya-, with regular Lydian sound...
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    Croesus (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    contemporary inscriptions in the Lydian language. In 2019, D. Sasseville and K. Euler published a research of Lydian coins apparently minted during his...
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  • (2017). "An Agreement between the Sardians and the Mermnads in the Lydian Language?". Indogermanische Forschungen. 122 (1): 265–294. doi:10.1515/if-2017-0014...
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    Gyges of Lydia (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    Gyges (/ˈdʒaɪdʒiːz/, /ˈɡaɪdʒiːz/; Lydian: 𐤨𐤰𐤨𐤠𐤮 Kukas;Akkadian: 𒁹𒄖𒊌𒄖, 𒁹𒄖𒄖 Gugu; Ancient Greek: Γύγης, romanized: Gugēs; Latin: Gygēs; reigned...
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    Phrygia (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    Lydian empire's eastern frontier. The Gordium site reveals a considerable building program during the 6th century BC, under the domination of Lydian kings...
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    Alyattes (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    Alyattes (Lydian language: 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤𐤯𐤤𐤮 Walweteś; Ancient Greek: Ἀλυάττης Aluáttēs; reigned c. 635-585 BC), sometimes described as Alyattes I, was...
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    The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization is a 1953 jazz music theory book written by George Russell. The book is the founding text of the Lydian...
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    Labrys (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    romanized: lábrys) is, according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe. In Greek it was called πέλεκυς (pélekys)...
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    positions) In some dialects of the Emilian language – /z/ transliteration of a palatalized s in the Lydian language In Proto-Semitic, a reconstructed voiceless...
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  • Pamphylian Greek (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    Porsopa Πρεῖϝυς Preivus Σϝαρδιας Svardias and Ισϝαρδιας (Lydian: Sfardẽtiš, 'inhabitant of the Lydian capital Sfard, Sardes') Ͷαναξίωνυς Wanaxiônus Φορδισία...
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    Semele (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    Thraco-Phrygian word for earth than it is to prove the priority of the Lydian baki- over Bacchus as a name for Dionysos".M.L.West derives the Phrygian...
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    Hipponax (category Lydian language)
    of Anatolian and particularly Lydian loanwords, as for example here where he addresses Zeus with the outlandish Lydian word for 'king' (nominative πάλμυς):...
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    attestation: Luwian, Lycian, Lydian and other Anatolian languages (c. 1400–400 BC). Oscan, Umbrian and other Old Italic languages (c. 600–200 BC). Old Persian...
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  • Lydian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Lydian language of ancient Anatolia. The following Unicode-related documents record the...
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    Warpalawas II (category Articles containing Lydian-language text)
    similar to the name Tarḫuniya (𒋻𒄷𒉌𒀀), meaning lit. 'Tarḫunzas-like'. A Lydian cognate of the name Warpallawas is attested in the form Ουρπαλος or Ουρπαλας...
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  • John the Lydian or John Lydus (Greek: Ἰωάννης Λαυρέντιος ὁ Λυδός; Latin: Ioannes Laurentius Lydus) (ca. AD 490 – ca. 565) was a Byzantine administrator...
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    Alphabets of Anatolia (category Ancient Greek language stubs)
    The Lydian script, an alphabet used to record the Lydian language from ca. the 5th to 4th centuries BCE; a related script is the "Para-Lydian" alphabet...
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    Sardis bilingual inscription (category Lydian language)
    Manisa, Turkey. It was the "Rosetta Stone" for the decipherment of the Lydian language. The Aramaic inscription begins by stating the date as the tenth year...
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  • sub-divisions of the Anatolian languages, alongside Hittite (central Anatolia), Luwic (southern Anatolia) and Lydian (western Anatolia). Its name in...
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    Indo-European languages. Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any other proto-language, and it is the best understood of all proto-languages of its...
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    original name due to its transmission to the Greek language through the intermediary of the Lydian language, which did not distinguish between the voiced and...
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    Bronze Age antecedents. As for linguistic relationships, Lydian is an Indo-European language. Lemnian, which is attested by a few inscriptions discovered...
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