Libyan language
| Libyan | ||
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Spoken in |
formerly in North Africa | |
| speaker | extinct | |
| Linguistic classification |
unknown
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | unknown | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) - | ( T ) - |
The Libyan language (also Old Libyan or Numidian ) is a largely incomprehensible language or a group of languages that dates back to around the 3rd century BC. BC to the 3rd century AD in large parts of North Africa and is considered to be the forerunner of the Berber languages . Although the Libyan script used for writing Libyan inscriptions is largely legible and several bilingual texts have been preserved, the Libyan language remains largely incomprehensible. Apart from the spatial coincidence, Libyan names, words and morphemes for which Berber interpretations have been suggested also speak for this.
literature
- J.-B. Chabot: Recueil des inscriptions libyques. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris 1940
- Otto Rössler: The language of Numidia . In: Sybaris: Festschrift for Hans Krahe's 60th birthday on February 7, 1958, offered by friends, students and colleagues . Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1958 (attempted interpretation of Libyan morphology)