Greek and the Anatolian Languages of the First Millennium: Lycian, Lydian, and Carian

This chapter addresses language contact between Late Anatolian languages and Greek from a synchronic perspective, that is, it considers the material that roughly corresponds with the written stages of Lydian, Lycian, and Car- ian. The denomination of Late Anatolian languages responds to the dating of their corpus of inscriptions, attested only during the first millennium BCE. The chronological framework of the present corpus of study is more difficult to delimit at the end of the written phases, for indirect material—especially onomastics endure beyond the Hellenistic and Roman periods.