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Elymian language
| Elymian | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sicily |
| Ethnicity | Elymians |
| Extinct | 3rd century BC[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xly |
xly | |
| Glottolog | elym1237 |
 Elymian was spoken in the red region. | |
Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian people of western Sicily. Its characteristics are little known because of the extremely limited and fragmentary nature of the surviving texts.
The origins of Elymian and its exact relationships with other languages are unclear due to scarcity of data. It is generally assumed to have been an Indo-European language,[2][3] but its classification within the Indo-European family is disputed. It has been speculated that Elymian was related to either the Italic languages or the Anatolian languages (such as Hittite), although both theories are disputed - with the first as preferred by the scholars.[4]
An Early Iron Age idiom, Elymian seems to have been spoken until the 3rd century BC.[1]
- ^ a b "Early Iron Age (map)". Indo-european.eu: Languages, Cultures & Peoples. May 2021.
- ^ Marchesini, Simona (2012). "The Elymian Language". In Tribulato, Olga (ed.). Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 95–114. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139248938.005. ISBN 9781139248938.
All scholars agree that Elymian is a language of the Indo-European family (p. 96).
- ^ Schrijver, Peter (2000). "Elymian". In Price, Glanville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 136–137. ISBN 0631220399.
- ^ Biondi, Laura; Rockenhaus, Melanie. "Elimo" [Elymian]. Mnamon: Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean: a critical guide to electronic resources. Pisa, Italy. Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy): laboratorio di Storia, Archeologia, Epigrafia, Tradizione dell'antico. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
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