Lycian
Script type	Alphabet
Period	c.500 –c.200 BC
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Lycian language
Related scripts
Parent systems	Phoenician Greek? Lycian
Sister systems	Carian,Lydian,Phrygian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Lyci(202), ​Lycian
Unicode
Unicode alias	Lycian
Unicode range	U+10280–U+1029F
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TheLycian alphabet was used to write theLycian language of theAsia Minor region ofLycia. It was an extension of the Greek alphabet, with half a dozen additional letters for sounds not found in Greek. It was largely similar to theLydian and thePhrygian alphabets.

The Lycian alphabet^[1][2] contains letters for 29 sounds. Some sounds are represented by more than one symbol, which is considered one "letter". There are six vowel letters, one for each of the four oral vowels of Lycian, and separate letters for two of the four nasal vowels. Nine of the Lycian letters do not appear to derive from the Greek alphabet.

Lycian uses the following number symbols: I (vertical stroke) = 1, < ("less than" sign) (or, rarely,L or C or V or Y) = 5, O (circle) = 10; a horizontal stroke — is one half;^[5] a symbol somewhat like our letter H may mean 100.^[6]

The number 128½ would therefore be expressed as HOO<III—.

The Lycian alphabet was added to theUnicode Standard in April, 2008 with the release of version 5.1.It is encoded in Plane 1 (Supplementary Multilingual Plane).

The Unicode block for Lycian is U+10280–U+1029F:

• Letoon trilingual
• Lycian language

• Adiego, I. J. (2007). "Greek and Lycian". In Christidis, A. F.; Arapopoulou, Maria; Chriti, Maria (eds.).A History of Ancient Greek From the Beginning to Late Antiquity. Chris Markham (trans.). Cambridge University press.ISBN 978-0-521-83307-3.. Translator Chris Markham.
• Bryce, Trevor R. (1986).The Lycians - Volume I: The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.ISBN 87-7289-023-1.
• Roger D. Woodard, 2007,The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor.

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• Everson, Michael (2006-02-05)."N3019R2: Proposal to encode the Lycian and Lydian scripts in the SMP of the UCS"(PDF). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. Retrieved2024-06-25.

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