I remember a lecture of my Latin teacher in the early eighties. This is how I recall it. An ancient king wondered what was the oldest language in the world. He had an infant put in a barn with sheep. Noone was to have verbal contact with the child. After some years the child was heard uttering the word "bekos", Phrygian for bread, so Phrygian had to be the oldest language.

I'm Greek, and from my language point of view, βεκος looks like nominative, accusative would be βεκον maybe, so I understand that the final phrase could be "bread not be given to him". Great video, κυδος!

Phrygians were a cousin nation of the Greeks! 🇬🇷 Their language belonged to the Graeco-Phrygian language family and most Phrygian and Greek words were mutually intelligible! However, between the 19th and the first half of the 20th century Phrygian was mostly considered a satəm language, and thus closer to Armenian and Thracian, while today it is commonly considered to be a centum language and thus closer to Greek.[20] CITATION [20] Obrador-Cursach, Bartomeu (2018). Lexicon of the Phrygian Inscriptions Phrygians spoke the Phrygian language, a member of the Indo-European linguistic family. Modern consensus regards Greek as its closest relative.[10][11] CITATION [10] Woodhouse, Robert (2009). "An overview of research on Phrygian from the nineteenth century to the present day". Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. "This question is of course only just separable from the question of which languages within Indo-European are most closely related to Phrygian, which has also been hotly debated. A turning point in this debate was Kortlandt's (1988) demonstration on the basis of shared sound changes that Thraco-Armenian had separated from Phrygian and other originally Balkan languages at an early stage. The consensus has now returned to regarding Greek as the closest relative." CITATION [11] Brixhe, Claude (2008). Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor. Cambridge University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-521-68496-5. "Unquestionably, however, Phrygian is most closely linked with Greek."

Kurdish - Frigian Da: Deiti (give) Ew: Oi (She/He) Ne/Na: Ne (Not) Kû/Kê: Ke (conjunction “because”)

Interesting to see the word for "and" is ke, which sounds exactly like Greek και. In modern Greek we use the word ανάκτορα, meaning palace. Good presentation!

0:48 ... and very close word to "Briges" in Kurdish is "Ber" which means stone, mountain. And from that root we have word "Berg" which means tower.

14:39 in modern Albanian bread is "bukë" probably derived from the same root as bekos

In my opinion considering that Phrygians might have migrated in the very past from the area of the southern Balkans, they obviously have a more common language to the Greek....as once part of the myriad of thr similar dialects existing there and later formed the language of thr greeks, thracians etc... When moving to Anatolia they must have taken local loanwords from the other people of Anatolia.

Excellent and informative, as usual.

Thank you so much. This was excellent.

Informative and interesting once again!

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PH later became B as in Bridgette or F as in Friga or Freeda. Bri as in Brian or Ryan means strong leader in the Celtic world. Gor or ghor means mountain or highlander often associated with K(H)urders who would take the sheep up the mountain in the summer. I have a very Celtic name that means Highlander Baalfire. The Baal-fire was lit on May day to celebrate the summer season. The Armenian word for cherry is բալ , pronounced bal is IMHO the origin of the weather God Baal. Cherries were not only a culinary delight but an important source of Vitamin C for folks in Anatolia. The cherry crop is very finicky requiring a length of chill in the winter to set the bloom & then of course favorable conditions for the bloom & growth of fruit. It was no doubt a mystery why some years provided a bounty & others a dearth of sweet cherries so a wee bit of prayer was in order. You may find some echoes of this celebration in Iran. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane

Once again a very interesting video! I guess the existence of Phrygian is what causes some scholars to join Greek and Armenian into an Indo-European subbranch. It's unfortunate that we need such a huge amount of inscriptions in order to get a more or less complete view of a language, particularly if that language is grammatically complex like the IE daughter languages. On an unrelated note, is there any mention of how those subscript dots on certain letters in the NP inscription probably modify the underlying sounds? Or are they some artefact of the scholarly notation in which they were recorded?

I want to learn this unique language due to my interest in Phyrygia but i cant find any useful resource, it breaks my heart. If you know a way to learn it, still do share it with me :(

Phrygian is a sister language to Greek. They share a lot of lexicon and grammar.Declensions and conjugations are strikingly similar to ancient Greek. Examples Phrygian Agkyra anchor Greek Agkyra anchor (modern day Ankara in Turkey) Phrygian aglawoy shining Greek aglaos shining Phrygian agorani buy Greek agora market agorazo buy Phrygian agtaei leader Phrygian arg rule Greek arkho rule Greek arkhon leader Greek egetes leader Phrygian autos he avton him Greek autos he auton him Phrygian dadon I gave Greek edosa I gave, dedoka I have given Phrygian ios who Greek os who Phrygian kun dog Greek kyon dog Phrygian eti and Greek eti more Phrygian kiklen wheel Greek Kyklos cycle,round Phrygian thri three Greek tria three Phrygian gdan earth Greek gaia earth Phrygian gegreimeno written Ancient Greek gegrammeno written Modern Greek grammeno written Phrygian germe warm Greek therme warm, hot baths Phrygian knaika woman Greek gynaika woman jin jineka in Kurdish zenata in Bulgarian Phrygian dekmoutais tenth Greek dekatos tenth Phrygian deos god Greek theos god Phrygian dike justice Greek dike trial,justice Greek dikeos just Phrygian aulos flute Greek aulos flute Phrygian eilikrine pure Greek eilikrinis pure frank Phrygian ekey or ekei there Greek ekei there Phrygian elegos poem of lament Greek elegos poem of lament Phrygian sira hand Greek cheira hand Phrygian zos live Ancient Greek zein live Modern Greek zo live (persian zinda) Phrygian thalameide chamber Greek thalamos chamber Phrygian innou are Greek ine are Phrygian kakon bad evil Greek kakon bad evil Phrygian karpus fruit ,outcome Greek Karpos fruit,outcome Phrygian ke and Greek ke and Phrygian kenos generation Greek genos generation Phrygian lafagt leader of people Greek lafagetis leader of people Phrygian latomeion quarry Greek latomeion quarry Phrygian mago magician Greek magos magician (from persian magush) Phrygian Mazeus Zeus Greek Zeus pater Jupiter (Sky father) Phrygian maimarean marble Greek marmaron marble Phrygian makran long Greek makros long Phrygian matar mother Greek meter mother Phrygian meyon less Greek meion less Phrygian mekas big Greek megas big Phrygian beret carry Greek phero carry Phrygian adrotos powerful Greek atrotos powerful Phrygian ksenones men;s rooms Greek xenones guests rooms Phrygian kseun host stranger Greek xenos host,stranger Phrygian oinis wine Greek oinos wine Phrygian onoman name Greek onoma name Phrygian onomaniais mentioned Greek onomastheis mentioned Phrygian otuwoi eight Greek octo eight Phrygian wanaktan lord king Greek anax lord ,king , anaktoron palace Phrygian panta all Greek panta all Phrygian pantakenanou everything is empty Greek pantakenon everything is empty Phrygian pateres fathers Greek pateres fathers Phrygian pater father Greek pater father Phrygian patrizi to the fathers Greek patroisi to the fathers Phrygian penthero father in law Greek pentheros father in law Phrygian pinke five Greek pente five Phrygian podas feet Ancien Greek podes feet Modern greek podia feet Phrygian Saggarios name of a river in Asia minor Greek Saggarios name of modern day Sakkarya river Phrygian skeledrias skeleton Greek skeletos skeleton Phrygian soro corpse Greek soros corpse tomb coffin Phrygian spereta seed Greek sporos seed Phrygian tapes carpet Greek tapes carpet Phrygian udor water Greek ydor water Phrygian uke nor Greek ute nor Phrygian upsos height upsodan on top Greek ypsos height Phrygian Kreistianoi Christians Greek Khristianoi Christians Phrigian wana king Greek anax king Phrygian wetej year Greek etos year Modern consensus regards Greek as the closest relative of Phrygian, a position that is supported by Brixhe, Neumann, Matzinger, Woodhouse, Ligorio, Lubotsky, and Obrador-Cursach. Furthermore, 34 out of the 36 Phrygian isoglosses that are recorded are shared with Greek, with 22 being exclusive between them. The last 50 years of Phrygian scholarship developed a hypothesis that proposes a proto-Graeco-Phrygian stage out of which Greek and Phrygian originated, and if Phrygian was more sufficiently attested, that stage could perhaps be reconstructed For more information and bibliography on the Phrygian language and the Phrygians visit the sites: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygians

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And I thought Cultist Simulator made it up...

In my understanding, not at all based on linguistics but rather on archaeology, both the Greek and Phrygio-Armenian branches derive from Vucedol culture (Middle Danube and Dinaric area, late Chalcolithic and into earliest Bronze), this culture we know now (largely from archaeogenetic data) that was a spinoff of the more important West Indoeuropean culture of Corded Ware (north and west of Vucedol area, slightly older and surely ancestral to Balto-Slavic, Celto-Italic and Germanic). In my opinion the proto-Greeks derive form the (coastal Montenegro) Mala Gruda facies and reached Greece (south and center primarily) by sea, not by land, being the first seagoing Indoeuropeans ever (what explains much about ancient Greeks, even in the Bronze Age already, being so "Viking-like"), while the Phrygio-Armenians (which probably are also ancestral to ancient Macedonians, allegedly related to the West Balcanic Bryges) surely arrived by land only in the late Bronze Age. This, plus differential substrate influences, surely explains why Greek and Armenian quite consistently appear as distant relatives in most Indoeuropean phylogenies.