Isaurian language
Appearance
Isaurian | |
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Native to | Asia Minor |
Region | Isauria |
Era | until the 5th century AD |
unclassified; personal names appear to be Luwian | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
Isaurian is an extinct language spoken in the area of Isaura, Asia Minor. The personal names of its users appear to be derived from Luwian and thus Indo-European.[1] Epigraphic evidence, including funerary inscriptions, is found into the 5th century AD.[2]
References
- ^ Frank R. Trombley and John W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Liverpool University Press, 2000), p. 12; Linda Honey, "Justifiably Outraged or Simply Outrageous? The Isaurian Incident of Ammianus Marcellinus 14.2," in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices (Ashgate, 2006), 50.
- ^ Honey, "The Isaurian incident," p. 50.