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The Anatolian languages are a group of extinct languages, either Indo-European , which were spoken in Asia Minor , the best attested of them being the Hittite Language . List of Anatolian languages:
There were likely other laguages of the family that have left no written records, such as the languages of Mysia , Cappadocia and Paphlagonia . The Anatolian branch is generally considered the earliest to split off the Proto-Indo-European Language , from a stage referred to either as Indo-Hittite or "Middle PIE". Anatolia was heavily Hellenized following the conquests of Alexander The Great , and it is generally thought that by the 1st century BC, the native languages of the area were extinct, making Anatolian the first known branch of Indo-European that has become extinct, the only other known branch that has no living descendants being Tocharian , which ceased to be spoken around the 8th Century . The " Aegean Languages " have been proposed as being related to the Anatolian branch, but in mainstream linguistics, the evidence in support of such claims is not considered conclusive. The Hittite Morphology is less complicated than other, older Indo-European languages. Either some Indo-European characteristics disappeared in Hittite or the other languages have innovated. It contains numerous Archaism s of great importance. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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