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ANATOLIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Anatolian mean?
• ANATOLIAN (noun)
The noun ANATOLIAN has 1 sense:
1. an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
Familiarity information: ANATOLIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Anatolian; Anatolian language
Hypernyms ("Anatolian" is a kind of...):
Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Anatolian"):
Hittite (the language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions)
Lycian; Luvian; Luwian; Lydian; Palaic (an Anatolian language)
Context examples
The Anatolian Shepherd Dog is a large dog similar to the Great Pyrenees and the Kuvasz, but more slender.
(Anatolian Shepherd Dog, NCI Thesaurus)
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