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Luwian

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Lu·vi·an  (lv-n) also Lu·wi·an (-w-n)
n.
1. An Indo-European language of the Anatolian family, attested in documents from the second and first millennia b.c. and now extinct.
2. A speaker of Luvian.
adj.
Of or relating to the Luvians, their culture, or their language.
[From Hittite Liya, ancient region in Anatolia.]
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Noun1.Luwian - an Anatolian language
Luvian
Anatolian, Anatolian language - an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
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