Isaurian language

{{Short description|Extinct language of Asia Minor}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Isaurian

| region = Isauria

| states = Asia Minor

| era = until the 5th century or 6th century AD

| familycolor = unclassified

| family = unclassified; personal names appear to be related to Luwian

| script =

| iso3 = none

| glotto = none

}}

Isaurian is an extinct language spoken in the area of Isauria, Asia Minor. Epigraphic evidence, including funerary inscriptions, has been found into the 6th century AD.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5geoDQAAQBAJ&q=isaurian+personal+names&pg=PT64|title=Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices|last=Honey|first=Linda|pages=50|chapter=Justifiably Outraged or Simply Outrageous? The Isaurian Incident of Ammianus Marcellinus|date=5 December 2016|publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781351875745}}Holl, Karl. “Das Fortleben Der Volkssprachen in Kleinasien in Nachchristlicher Zeit.” Hermes, vol. 43, no. 2, 1908, pp. 242. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4473126. Accessed 16 Jun. 2022. The personal names of its speakers appear to be derived from Luwian and thus Indo-European.Frank R. Trombley and John W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Liverpool University Press, 2000), p. 12; Linda Honey, "Justifiably Outraged or Simply Outrageous? The Isaurian Incident of Ammianus Marcellinus 14.2," in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices (Ashgate, 2006), 50. Isaurian names containing clear Anatolian roots include Οαδας Oadas, Τροκονδας Trokondas (cf. Luwian Tarḫunt, Lycian 𐊗𐊕𐊌𐊌𐊑𐊗 Trqqñt), Κουδεις Koudeis (cf. Lycian Kuwata), and Μοασις Moasis (cf. Hittite muwa "power").{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs5xuX231MoC&q=isauria&pg=PA503|title=Sagalassos Five|last1=Waelkens|first1=Marc|last2=Loots|first2=Lieven|date=2000|publisher=Leuven University Press|isbn=9789058670793|language=en}}

The Isaurian personal name Τουατρις Touatris may reflect the Indo-European word for 'daughter' (compare Hieroglyphic Luwian ^FILIAtú-wa/i-tara/i-na).Blažek, Václav. “Indo-European kinship terms in *-ə̯₂TER”. (2001). In: Grammaticvs: studia linguistica Adolfo Erharto quinque et septuagenario oblata. Šefčík, Ondřej (editor); Vykypěl, Bohumil (editor). Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 2001. p. 25. http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/123188