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THRACO-PHRYGIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Thraco-Phrygian" 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 "Thraco-Phrygian"):
Thracian (a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages)
Phrygian (a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions)