They failed to reach the Anatolian coasts of the Black Sea however, as another Indo-European people, the Kaskians, had established a kingdom there in the 17th Century BC, displacing earlier Palaic speaking Indo-Europeans.

A second version opposes Hittite to Western Anatolian, and divides the latter into Lydian, Palaic and the Luwian Group ( instead of Luwic ).

The Anatolian branch also includes Cuneiform Luwian, Hieroglyphic Luwian, Palaic, Lycian, Milyan, Lydian, Carian, Pisidian, and Sidetic.

Therefore Palaic is thought to belong to the Anatolian languages, although whether as a sister language to Old Hittite or Cuneiform Luwian is unknown.

* Pala, the region in Anatolia during the Bronze Age which spoke the Palaic language ; it was to the northwest of Hattusa on the other side of Mount Asharpaya

Palaic is an extinct Indo-European language, attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites.

In western Anatolia, many toponyms with the "- ss -" infix derive from the adjectival suffix also seen in cuneiform Luwian and some Palaic ; the classic example is Bronze Age Tarhuntassa ( loosely, " City of the Storm God Tarhunta "), and later Parnassus may be related to the Hittite word parna-or " house ".

Palaic is a fairly typical specimen of Indo-European.

The entire corpus of Palaic spans only CTH 751-754 in Emmanuel Laroche's catalog of Hittite texts ; in addition Hittite texts elsewhere cite passages in Palaic in reference to the god Zaparwa ( Hittite Ziparwa ).

In particular, CTH 750, a festival in Hittite for Ziparwa and associated deities, includes passages stating, " The Old Woman speaks the words of the bread in Palaic ," or alternately " the words of the meal ," though no Palaic passages are quoted.

Palaic also shows the same gender distinction as seen in Hittite, i. e. animate vs. inanimate ; and has similar pronoun forms.

Anatolia has been inhabited by many peoples throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Mitanni, Scythians, Cimmerians, Urartians, Carians, Commagene, Cilicians, Arameans, Kaskians, Mushki, Palaic, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Colchians, Iberians, Georgians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks, and Ottomans.

* Palaic and Luwian, cultivated as a religious language by the Hittites.

Palaic, on the northern border of both, like later Hieroglyphic Luwian has both an-as genitive and an-asa adjectival suffix.

Anatolia has been inhabited by many peoples throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Mitanni, Scythians, Cimmerians, Urartians, Carians, Commagene, Cilicians, Arameans, Kaskians, Mushki, Palaic, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Colchians, Iberians, Georgians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks, and Ottomans.

** Umbrian ( not to be confused with the modern Umbrian dialect of Italian ), which was spoken in the north-central region

* Yana language, extinct language formerly spoken in north-central California

Hittite ( natively " the language of Neša ") a. k. a. Nesite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, an Indo-European people who created an empire centred on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ( Asia Minor ).

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The Sekani language is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Sekani people of north-central British Columbia, Canada.

* Bhojpuri language, spoken in north-central and eastern India

Their language may also be known as Maleku, which is spoken in the north-central part of the country, and is a Chibchan language.

The Anatolian languages are a family of extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in Asia Minor ( ancient Anatolia ), the best attested of them being the Hittite language.

The term Anatolian is also used to mean any language spoken in Anatolia, whether it belonged to the Anatolian family or not.

Long after the extinction of the Hittite language, Luwian continued to be spoken in the Neo-Hittite states of Syria, such as Milid and Carchemish, as well as in the central Anatolian kingdom of Tabal that flourished in the 8th century BC.

Anatolian languages is a branch of the Indo-European language family which was spoken in Anatolia ca.

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The region in which Basque is spoken today has contracted over centuries and is thus smaller than what is known as the Basque Country, or Euskal Herria in Basque.

* The Modern Burgundian language, an Oïl language also known as Bourguignon spoken in the region of Burgundy.

A fifth guérandais dialect was spoken up to the beginning of the 20th century in the region of Guérande and Batz-sur-Mer.

Brahui is spoken in the southwest region of Pakistan, as well as regions of Afghanistan and Iran which border Pakistan ; however, many members of the ethnic group no longer speak Brahui.

Gallurese is spoken in the extreme north of Sardinia, including the region of Gallura and the archipelago of La Maddalena.

For political reasons, analyzing these varieties as " languages " or " dialects " yields inconsistent results: British and American English, spoken by close political and military allies, are almost universally regarded as dialects of a single language, whereas the standard languages of Serbia and Croatia, which differ from each other to a similar extent as the dialects of English, are being treated by some linguists from the region as distinct languages, largely because the two countries oscillate from being brotherly to being bitter enemies.

The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization, in what is present-day Italy, in the ancient region of Etruria ( modern Tuscany plus western Umbria and northern Latium ) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna ( where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls ).

** Oscan, which was spoken in the south-central region of the Italian Peninsula

It was during the Viking invasions of the Anglo-Saxon period that Old English was influenced by contact with Norse, a group of North Germanic dialects spoken by the Vikings, who came to control a large region in the North of England known as the Danelaw.

Dialects of the Kansai region are spoken or known by many Japanese, and Osaka dialect in particular is associated with comedy ( see Kansai dialect ).

Kashubian is assumed to have evolved from the language spoken by some tribes of Pomeranians called Kashubians, in the region of Pomerania, on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder rivers.

** Eastphalian language, spoken in southeastern Lower Saxony ( Hanover, Braunschweig, Göttingen ) and in the Magdeburg Börde region

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other spoken dialects of Chavacano Language are the following: Cotabateñ in Cotabato City and Castellano Abakay in Davao region.

However, they can include claims to territory where no members of that nation live at present, because they lived there in the past, the national language is spoken in that region, the national culture has influenced it, geographical unity with the existing territory, or a wide variety of other reasons.

# The Poznanski dialect, spoken in Poznań and to some extent in the whole region of the former Prussian annexation ( excluding upper Silesia ), with characteristic high tone melody and notable influence of the German language.

# The Kashubian language, spoken in the Pomorze region west of Gdańsk on the Baltic Sea, has seemed like a dialect to some observers.

# The Silesian language is spoken in the Upper Silesia region, mainly in the Silesian Voivodeship and Opole Voivodeship in Poland and also in the Moravian – Silesian Region in Czech Republic.

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