ANATOLIAN

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Meaning:

An extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European

Synonyms:

Anatolian; Anatolian language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Anatolian" is a kind of...):

Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Anatolian"):

Hittite (the language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions)

Lycian; Luvian; Luwian; Lydian; Palaic (an Anatolian language)