Editing Ancient Greek (section)

===Related languages===
{{main|Phrygian language}}

[[Phrygian language|Phrygian]] is an extinct [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] language of West and Central [[Anatolia]], which is considered by some linguists to have been closely related to [[Greek language|Greek]].<ref name="Brixhe pp. 165–178">Brixhe, Cl. "Le Phrygien". In Fr. Bader (ed.), ''Langues indo-européennes'', pp. 165–178, Paris: CNRS Editions.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Brixhe |first=Claude |year=2008 |chapter=Phrygian |editor-last=Woodard |editor-first=Roger D |title=The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientlanguages00wood |url-access=limited |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-68496-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ancientlanguages00wood/page/n91 69]–80}} "Unquestionably, however, Phrygian is most closely linked with Greek." (p. 72).</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Obrador-Cursach|first=Bartomeu|date=2019-12-01|title=On the place of Phrygian among the Indo-European languages|journal=Journal of Language Relationship|language=ru|volume=17|issue=3–4|pages=243|doi=10.31826/jlr-2019-173-407|s2cid=215769896|doi-access=free |quote=With the current state of our knowledge, we can affirm that Phrygian is closely related to Greek. }}</ref> Among Indo-European branches with living descendants, Greek is often argued to have the closest genetic ties with [[Armenian language|Armenian]]<ref>James Clackson. ''Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction''. Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 11–12.</ref> (see also [[Graeco-Armenian]]) and [[Indo-Iranian languages]] (see [[Graeco-Aryan]]).<ref>Benjamin W. Fortson. ''Indo-European Language and Culture''. Blackwell, 2004, p. 181.</ref><ref>Henry M. Hoenigswald, "Greek", ''The Indo-European Languages'', ed. [[Anna Giacalone Ramat]] and Paolo Ramat (Routledge, 1998 pp. 228–260), p. 228.<br>[[BBC]]: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/languages/greek.shtml Languages across Europe: Greek] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114002806/http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/languages/greek.shtml |date=14 November 2020 }}</ref>