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Sidetic language

Sidetic was an Anatolian language spoken at Side on the Pamphylian coast of southern Turkey, related to Luwian and Lycian. It is known from a few inscriptions and coin legends of the 5th to 2nd centuries BCE, written in a distinctive alphabet of its own. Only partly deciphered, it shows that the Greek colonists of Side came to use the local language.

Sidetic language
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sidetic language. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sidetic-language
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