Late Languages of Marginal Attestation: Pamphylian, Sidetic, and Pisidian.

In this section, we introduce three languages attested in a circumscribed geo- graphical area located roughly in the central part of southern Anatolia: Pamphylian, Sidetic, and Pisidian, which are presented in order of relevance to the study of language contact. These languages pose a number of problems in terms of documentation, interpretation of texts, and genealogical filiation. However, they also provide some interesting data for the study of language contact. Pamphylian is a Greek dialect, but, unlike other Greek dialects, its documentation includes only epigraphic evidence (and plausibly some glosses in scholarly tradition); no literary texts have come down to us. Sidetic and Pisidian are Anatolian languages and probably belong to the Luwic branch. They are also attested only by epigraphs, which mostly include personal names. Their chronology is not entirely consistent: whereas Pamphylian and Sidetic display coeval documentation and plausibly were in contact with each other, Pisidian documentation is significantly later.