Sidetic | |
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Spoken in | Ancient southwestern Anatolia |
Extinct | Third century BCE |
Language family | |
Writing system | Sidetic script |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xsd |
The Sidetic language is a member of the extinct Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family known from legends of coins dating to the period of approx. the 5th to 3rd centuries BC found in Side at the Pamphylian coast. The Greek historian Arrian mentions the existence of a peculiar indigenous language in the city of Side. Sidetic was probably closely related to Lydian, Carian and Lycian.