On Fri, 30 May 2003 07:38:36 +0000, Piotr Gasiorowski
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piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>Old Luwian was documented not much later than Hittite. Palaic is also
>old. The "neo-Anatolian" languages that continued to be used
>throughout the first millennium BC are usualy taken to be descendants
>of Luwian regional dialects.
First millennium Lycian is certainly a more or lesss direct descendant
of second millennium Luwian (at least from a Western dialect of
Luwian). The smaller languages are harder to classify because we know
so little about them. Lydian stands apart sufficiently to be put into
a group of its own.
Silvia Luraghi (in Ramat & Ramat's "The IE Languages") draws the
following diagram:
Proto-Anatolian
/ \
Western Anatolian Hittite
/ | \
Lydian Luwian Group Palaic
/ | \
Proto-Lycian Proto-Luwian Carian(?)
/ \ / \
Lycian Milyan C.Luwian H.Luwian
(C. and H. Luwian are Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Luwian)
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...