Lydian script

Lydian script

Infobox Writing system
name=Lydian
languages=Lydian language
type=Alphabet
time=700-200 BCE
sample=
imagesize=270px
fam1=Greek alphabet
sisters=Other Alphabets of Asia Minor
iso15924=Lydi

Lydian script was used to write the Lydian language. That the language preceded the script is indicated by names in Lydian, which must have existed before they were written. Like other scripts of Anatolia in the Iron Age, the Lydian alphabet is a modification of the East Greek alphabet, but it has unique features. The same Greek letters may not represent the same sounds in both languages or in any other Anatolian language (in some cases it may). Moreover, the Lydian script is alphabetic.

Early Lydian texts are written both from left to right and from right to left. Later texts are exclusively written from right to left. One text is boustrophedon. Spaces separate words except that one text uses dots. Lydian uniquely features a quotation mark in the shape of a right triangle.

The alphabet

The Lydian alphabet [Adiego (2007) page 769.] [Everson (2006).] is closely related to the other alphabets of Asia Minor as well as to the Greek alphabet. It contains letters for 26 sounds. Some are represented by more than one symbol, which is considered one "letter." Unlike the Carian alphabet, which had an "f" derived from Φ, the Lydian "f" has the peculiar "8" shape also found in the Etruscan alphabet.

In addition are the two digrams, aa and ii, considered allophones of a and i under speculative circumstances. [Gērard (2005) page 34.]

Lydian in Unicode

The Lydian script is included in version 5.1 of the Unicode standard. It is encoded in Plane 1 (Supplementary Multilingual Plane), range U+10920 - U+1093F. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points.

Notes

References

*. Translator Chris Markham.
*cite book|first=Raphaël|last=Gérard|title=Phonétique et morphologie de la langue lydienne|publisher=Peeters|city=Louvain-la-Neuve|date=2005|id=ISBN:9042915749 French language text.
*Gusmani, R. "Lydisches Wörterbuch. Mit grammatischer Skizze und Inschriftensammlung", Heidelberg 1964 (Ergänzungsband 1-3, Heidelberg 1980-1986).
*Melchert, H. Craig (2004) "Lydian", in Roger D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56256-2. pp. 601-608.
* Shevoroshkin, V. "The Lydian Language", Moscow, 1977.

ee also

*Lydian language

External links

*
* [http://indoeuro.bizland.com/project/grammar/grammar21.html Lydian Grammar] by Cyril Babaev
* [http://indoeuro.bizland.com/tree/anat/lydian.html Lydian Language]


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