Sidetic language

Sidetic
Region	Ancient southwestern Anatolia
Extinct	after the third century BCE
Language family	Indo-European Anatolian Luwo-Lydian Luwo-Palaic Luwic Lyco-Carian Lycian–Sidetic Sidetic
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Anatolian
Writing system	Sidetic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xsd
Linguist List	xsd
Glottolog	side1240
Map showing (in red) where Sidetic inscriptions have been found.

Sidetic is a member of the extinct Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is known from legends of coins, found in Side at the Pamphylian coast, that date to the period of approximately the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE, and from two Greek–Sidetic bilingual inscriptions from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. The Greek historian Arrian in his Anabasis Alexandri (mid-2nd century CE) mentions the existence of a peculiar indigenous language in the city of Side, which is assumed to be the language of the coins and inscriptions. Sidetic was probably closely related to Lydian, Carian and Lycian.

Sidetic was written with a script of the Anatolian group. The Sidetic alphabet has 31 identified letters, a few of which are clearly derived from Greek. The script has been partially deciphered, though the phonetic values of many letters are uncertain.^[1]