THRACO-PHRYGIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thraco-Phrygian mean? 

• THRACO-PHRYGIAN (noun)
  The noun THRACO-PHRYGIAN has 1 sense:

1. an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian

  Familiarity information: THRACO-PHRYGIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRACO-PHRYGIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Thraco-Phrygian" is a kind of...):

Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Thraco-Phrygian"):

Thracian (a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages)

Phrygian (a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions)