Sidetic
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- Language: Sidetic
- Alternate names: -
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:esid
- Language family: Indo-European, Anatolian, Southwest
- Number of speakers: -
- Script: -
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Introduction
Sidetic is an extinct Anatolian language known from legends of coins dating to the period of approx. the 5th to 3rd centuries BC found in Side at the Pamphylian coast.
The verb
Sidetic language had two main tenses, present and preterite, with the ending -l in the 3rd person preterite, derived from the Hittite pronominal declension. There was a participle in -rs'.