Editing Anatolian languages (section)

==== Lycian ====
{{main|Lycian language}}
[[File:Anatolian 03.png|thumb|upright=1|Luwic branch of Anatolian languages attested in the mid-1st millennium BC]]

Lycian (called "Lycian A" when Milyan was a "Lycian B") was spoken in classical [[Lycia]], in southwestern Anatolia. It is attested from 172 inscriptions,<ref>{{harvnb|Keen|1998|p=7}}.</ref> mainly on stone, from about 150 funerary monuments, and 32 public documents. The writing system is the [[Lycian alphabet]], which the Lycians modified from the [[Greek alphabet]]. In addition to the inscriptions are 200 or more coins stamped with Lycian names. Of the texts, some are bilingual in Lycian and Greek, and one, the [[Letoon trilingual|Létôon trilingual]], is in Lycian, Greek, and Aramaic. The longest text, the [[Xanthian Obelisk|Xanthus stele]], with about 250 lines, was originally believed to be bilingual in Greek and Lycian; however the identification of a verse in another, closely related language, a "Lycian B" identified now as [[Milyan language|Milyan]], renders the stele trilingual. The earliest of the coins date before 500 BC;<ref>{{harvnb|Keen|1998|p=11}}.</ref> however, the writing system must have required time for its development and implementation.

The name of Lycia appears in [[Homer]]<ref>"[[Sarpedon (Trojan War hero)|Sarpedon]], king of Lycia", in ''[[Iliad]]'' 5.471f.</ref> but more historically, in Hittite and in Egyptian documents among the "[[Sea Peoples]]", as the Lukka, dwelling in the [[Lukka lands]]. No Lycian text survives from Late Bronze Age times, but the names offer a basis for postulating its continued existence.

Lycia was completely Hellenized by the end of the 4th century BC,<ref>{{harvnb|Keen|1998|p=175}}.</ref> after which Lycian is not to be found. Stephen Colvin goes so far as to term this, and the other scantily attested Luwic languages, "Late Luwian",<ref>{{Cite book |last=Colvin |first=Stephen |title=The Greco-Roman East: Politics, Culture, Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |series=Yale Classical Studies |volume=31 |location=Cambridge; New York |page=45}}</ref> although they probably did not begin late. Analogously, [[Ivo Hajnal]] calls them – using an equivalent German term – {{lang|de|Jungluwisch}}.<ref>Hajnal, Ivo. 2003. “Jungluwisch” – eine Bestandsaufnahme. In M. Giorgieri et al.(eds.): ''Licia e Lidia prima dell’ ellenizzazione'', 187-205. Rome: CNR.  [https://www.academia.edu/2400834 Online]</ref>