Elymian language
Ancient language of Sicily / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian people of western Sicily. Its characteristics are little known because of the extremely limited and fragmentary nature of the surviving texts.
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Elymian | |
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Region | Sicily |
Ethnicity | Elymians |
Extinct | 3rd century BC?[citation needed] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xly |
xly | |
Glottolog | elym1237 |
Elymian was spoken in the red region. |
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The origins of Elymian and its exact relationships with other languages are unclear due to scarcity of data. It is generally assumed to have been an Indo-European language,[1][2] but its classification within the Indo-European family is disputed. It has been speculated that Elymian was related to either the Italic languages or the Anatolian languages (such as Hittite), although both theories are disputed.