The Pisidian language is a member of the extinct Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family spoken in Pisidia, known from some two dozen short inscriptions. It is probably closely related to the Lycian and Sidetic languages, but there appears to be some Phrygian influence so that the langauge may be a creole of Phrygian and indigenous Anatolian dialects. The Anatolian languages are a group of extinct languages, either Indo-European or (in some classifications) closely related to Indo-European, which were spoken in Asia Minor, including Hittite. ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... Pisidia was an inland region in southern Anatolia. ... Lycian was an Indo-European language, one of the Anatolian languages, that was spoken in the Iron age region of Lycia in Anatolia, present day Turkey. ... The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, a people who probably migrated from Thrace to Asia Minor in the Bronze Age. ... The term Creole and its relatives in other languages — such as crioulo, criollo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kriulo, kriol, krio, etc. ...

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