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Phrygian is attested by two corpora, one from around 800 BC and later (Paleo-Phrygian), and then after a period of several centuries from around the beginning of the Common Era (Neo-Phrygian). The Palaeo-Phrygian corpus is further divided (geographically) into inscriptions of Midas -city (M, W), Gordion , Central (C), Bithynia (B), Pteria (P), Tyana (T), Daskyleion (Dask), Bayindir (Bay), and "various" (Dd, ''documents divers''). The ''' Mysian ''' inscriptions seem to be in a separate dialect (in an alphabet with an additional letter, "Mysian s"). By the 6th Century AD it was extinct, but we can reconstruct some words with the help of some inscriptions written with a script similar to the Greek . It is believed that it was close to Thracian and maybe Armenian , mostly on grounds of classical sources. Herodotus recorded the Macedonian account that Phrygians emigrated into Asia Minor from Thrace (7.73). Later in the text (7.73), Herodotus states that the Armenians were colonists of the Phrygians, still considered the same Ethnos in the time of Xerxes I . Judging from linguistics, Phrygian appears closest to Greek , a language with which it was for some time in contact. GRAMMAR Its structure, what can be recovered from it, was typically Indo-European , with nouns Declined for case (at least 4), gender (3) and number (singular and plural), while the verbs are Conjugated for tense, voice, mood, person and number. No single word is attested in all its Inflectional forms.
VOCABULARY A sizable body of Phrygian words are theoretically known; however, the meaning and etymologies and even Correct Forms of many Phrygian words (mostly extracted from inscriptions) are still being debated.
Other Phrygian words include:
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