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Sidetic language

Ancient Indo-European language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 22, 2026
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Source-derived summary

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 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.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sidetic language” is ancient Indo-European language. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sidetic, language and Ancient, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 97-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sidetic, language and Ancient is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sidetic language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.