Luwians, Lydians, Etruscans, and Troy: the linguistic landscape of Northwestern Anatolia in the pre-classical period

Kloekhorst, A. (2022)

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It is debated which language or languages may have been spoken in the northwestern part of Anatolia – including the area where Troy was situated – during the second millennium BCE. This article will argue that at the end of the Bronze Age (the second half of the second millennium BCE) the eastern part of this region, the land of Māša, was home to speakers of an early version of Lydian, whereas in its western part, the land of Wiluša, the main language was Proto-Tyrsenic, the ancestor of Etruscan.

• Anatolia
• Troy
• Ancient Near East
• Etruscan
• Linguistic landscape
• Bronze Age Anatolia

• All authors: Kloekhorst, A.
• Editor(s): Hajnal, I.; Zangger, E.; Kelder, J.
• Date: 2022
• Title of host publication: The political geography of Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age
• Pages: 201 - 227
• ISBN (print): 9786155766541