Author: MELCHERT, H. Craig.
Title: A Dictionary of the Lycian.
Description: New York, Beech Stave Press, Ann Arbor, 2004. P/b. xvii+138pp. Very good. Clean, bright and tight. Barely used. Owner name neatly inside. Lycian was an Indo-European language, one of the Anatolian languages, that was spoken in the Iron age region of Lycia in Anatolia, present day Turkey. It is believed by some specialists to be a descendant of Hittite or Luwian or perhaps both. It became extinct around the first century BC and was replaced by Greek. The language is known from a few brief inscriptions. Lycian had its own alphabet that was closely related to the Greek alphabet.

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