Sidetic language

<p>Sidetic is a member of the extinct <a href="/facts/Anatolian_languages/aGWvRmue">Anatolian</a> branch of the <a href="/facts/Indo-European_language_family/L34TfgSr">Indo-European language family</a>. It is known from legends of coins, found in <a href="/facts/Side%2c_Turkey/T96Y05Vs">Side</a> at the <a href="/facts/Pamphylia/TsDKT4nb">Pamphylian</a> coast, that date to the period of approximately the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE, and from two Greek–Sidetic <a href="/facts/Bilingual_inscription/Tp9prKFm">bilingual inscriptions</a> from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. The Greek historian <a href="/facts/Arrian/LQVTlCt8">Arrian</a> in his <a href="/facts/Anabasis_Alexandri/X0ywWLvw">Anabasis Alexandri</a> (mid-2nd century CE) mentions the existence of a peculiar indigenous language in the city of Side, which is assumed to be the language of the coins and inscriptions.
Sidetic was probably closely related to <a href="/facts/Lydian_language/6Qj2CC35">Lydian</a>, <a href="/facts/Carian_language/WufUyyKb">Carian</a> and <a href="/facts/Lycian_language/9uotLqML">Lycian</a>.
</p><p>Sidetic was written with a script of the <a href="/facts/Alphabets_of_Asia_Minor/GLJcPChb">Anatolian group</a>. The Sidetic alphabet has 31 identified letters, a few of which are clearly derived from Greek.  The script has been partially deciphered, though the phonetic values of many letters are uncertain.
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Sidetic language