Sidetic language

Sidetic
Region	Ancient southwestern Anatolia
Extinct	after the third century BCE
Language family	Indo-European Anatolian Luwian subgroup Sidetic
Writing system	Sidetic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xsd
Linguist List	xsd
Glottolog	side1240

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 BCE found in Side at the Pamphylian coast, and two Greek–Sidetic bilingual inscriptions from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE respectively. The Greek historian Arrian in his Anabasis Alexandri (mid-2nd century CE) mentions the existence of a peculiar indigenous language in the city of Side. Sidetic was probably closely related to Lydian, Carian and Lycian.

See also

• Pisidian language

External links

• Indo-European Database