Mysian language

Mysian
Native toTurkey
RegionMysia
EthnicityMysians
Extinct1st century BC[1]
Mysian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3yms
yms
Glottologmysi1239

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.

  1. ^ "Mysian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 2025-01-19. Before 1st Century AD.
  2. ^ Strabo. "Geography, Book XII, Chapter 8". LacusCurtius.


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