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Milyan language

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Region
  
Lycia, Anatolia

Writing system
  
Lycian script

Linguist list
  
imy

Era
  
First millennium BCE

ISO 639-3
  
imy

Language family
  
Indo-European Anatolian Luwian Milyan

Milyan, also known as Lycian B and previously Lycian 2, is an ancient Anatolian language formerly regarded as a variety of Lycian, but now accorded status as a separate language. It is attested from two inscriptions, one of 45 syllables on the Xanthus Stele, and the other, shorter, from a sarcophagus at Antiphellus. The Xanthus inscription is in verse, with strophes marked off by the use of ⟨)⟩.

References

Milyan language Wikipedia