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Phrygian

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Phrygian was an Indo-European language spoken by the Phrygians in Anatolia, in what is now Turkey, during classical antiquity, from around the eighth century BCE to the fifth century CE. Ancient Greek writers used the name as an umbrella term for several central Anatolian peoples rather than one clearly defined ethnic group, so its linguistic homogeneity is debated. The scholarly consensus holds that Phrygian's closest relative within Indo-European is Greek, though ancient writers such as Plato also noted resemblances between some Phrygian and Greek words, and some evidence points to further connections with Armenian and Albanian.

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