Indo-European family

Palaic

c. 1,600 BCE – 1,200 BCE Extinct

Palaic (c. 1,600 BCE – 1,200 BCE) is an extinct Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Anatolian → Palaic.

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ISO 639-3
plq

Known only from ritual passages in Hittite archives; probably extinct before the fall of the Hittite Empire.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Anatolianc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  3. Palaicc. 1,600 BCE – 1,200 BCE

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Anatolian.

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