Langenesis

Indo-European family

Median

c. 900 BCE – 300 BCE Extinct

Median (c. 900 BCE – 300 BCE) is an extinct Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Iranian → Median.

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ISO 639-3
xme

Northwestern Old Iranian of the Medes, known only from loanwords and names in Old Persian, Akkadian and Greek sources.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Iranianc. 1,800 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Medianc. 900 BCE – 300 BCE

Sister languages 16

Also descended from Proto-Iranian.

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