The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, people that migrated from Thrace to Asia Minor around 1200 BC.

Phrygian is attested by two corpora, one from around 800 BC and later (Paleo-Phrygian), and then after a period of several centuries from around the beginning of the Common Era (Neo-Phrygian).

By the 6th century AD it was extinct, but we can reconstruct some words with the help of some inscriptions written with a script similar to the Greek.

It is believed that it was close to Thracian and maybe Armenian, but probably closest to Greek, a language with which it was for some time in contact.

Its structure, what can be recovered from it, was typically Indo-European, with nouns declined for case (at least 4), gender (3) and number (singular and plural), while the verbs are conjugated for tense, voice, mood, person and number. No single word is attested in all its inflectional forms.

External links

• Phrygian glossary
• Phrygia and Phrygians