Lydian was used in the region of Lydia from the 7th to the 3rd century BC. It is a member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. Its preserved corpus is very limited. It consists of over a hundred inscriptions, many containing no more than one or few words and are difficult to interpret. There is no evidence for adjective valence.

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Gérard, Raphaël . 2005. Phonétique et morphologie de la langue Lydienne. (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l’Institut de Linguistique de Louvain, 114.) Louvain: Peeters. 142pp. (Based on the author’s thesis (mémoire de licence)–Université catholique de Louvain, 2001.)

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