Sidetic language

Formerly spoken in

• Indo-European Anatolian Side table

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Ine ( other Indo-European languages)

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The Side tables was a language of ancient southern Anatolia. It was spoken to at least the 2nd century BC in the city and probably also on the outskirts of Side in Pamphylia. The language is Indo-European and attributable to the Anatolian languages ​​and related to the Luwian.

About the Side tables reported by Arrian in his Anabasis (I 26.4 ) that you speak a language in Side, which have something in common with neither the Greek nor the languages ​​of the surrounding countryside. It is also known from coins of the 3rd and 4th century that the city had its own script, which was derived from the Greek alphabet. Important evidence for the language are a Greek -side tables Bilingue from the 2nd century ( a dedicatory inscription ) and a bilingual from the 3rd century.