Isaurian language explained
| Isaurian |
| Region: | Isauria |
| States: | Asia Minor |
| Era: | until the 5th century or 6th century AD |
| Familycolor: | unclassified |
| Family: | unclassified
- personal names appear to be related to Luwian
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| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | none |
Isaurian is an extinct language spoken in the area of Isauria, Asia Minor. Epigraphic evidence, including funerary inscriptions, has been found into the 6th century AD.[1] [2] The personal names of its speakers appear to be derived from Luwian and thus Indo-European.[3] Isaurian names containing clear Anatolian roots include Οαδας Oadas, Τροκονδας Trokondas (cf. Luwian Tarḫunt, Lycian Trqqñt), Κουδεις Koudeis (cf. Lycian Kuwata), and Μοασις Moasis (cf. Hittite muwa "power").[4]
The Isaurian personal name Τουατρις Touatris may reflect the Indo-European word for 'daughter' (compare Hieroglyphic Luwian FILIAtú-wa/i-tara/i-na).[5]
Notes and References
- Book: Honey, Linda. https://books.google.com/books?id=5geoDQAAQBAJ&q=isaurian+personal+names&pg=PT64. Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices. 50. Justifiably Outraged or Simply Outrageous? The Isaurian Incident of Ammianus Marcellinus. 5 December 2016. Routledge . 9781351875745.
- Holl, Karl. “Das Fortleben Der Volkssprachen in Kleinasien in Nachchristlicher Zeit.” Hermes, vol. 43, no. 2, 1908, pp. 242. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4473126. Accessed 16 Jun. 2022.
- Frank R. Trombley and John W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Liverpool University Press, 2000), p. 12; Linda Honey, "Justifiably Outraged or Simply Outrageous? The Isaurian Incident of Ammianus Marcellinus 14.2," in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices (Ashgate, 2006), 50.
- Book: Sagalassos Five. Waelkens. Marc. Loots. Lieven. 2000. Leuven University Press. 9789058670793. en.
- Blažek, Václav. “Indo-European kinship terms in *-ə̯2TER”. (2001). In: Grammaticvs: studia linguistica Adolfo Erharto quinque et septuagenario oblata. Šefčík, Ondřej (editor); Vykypěl, Bohumil (editor). Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 2001. p. 25. http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/123188
