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Lydian script was used to write the Lydian language. That the language preceded the script is indicated by names in Lydian, which must have existed before they were written. Like other scripts of Anatolia in the Iron Age, the Lydian alphabet is a modification of the East Greek alphabet, but it has unique features. The same Greek letters may not represent the same sounds in both languages or in any other Anatolian language (in some cases it may). Moreover, the Lydian script is alphabetic. Early Lydian texts are written both from left to right and from right to left. Later texts are exclusively written from right to left. One text is boustrophedon. Spaces separate words except that one text uses dots. Lydian uniquely features a quotation mark in the shape of a right triangle. The first codification was made by Roberto Gusmani in 1964 in a combined lexicon (vocabulary), grammar, and text collection. ==The alphabet== The Lydian alphabet〔Adiego (2007) page 769.〕〔Everson (2006).〕 is closely related to the other alphabets of Asia Minor as well as to the Greek alphabet. It contains letters for 26 sounds. Some are represented by more than one symbol, which is considered one "letter." Unlike the Carian alphabet, which had an ''f'' derived from Φ, the Lydian ''f'' has the peculiar ''8'' shape also found in the Etruscan alphabet. In addition two digraphs, ''aa'' and ''ii'', appear to be allophones of () and () under speculative circumstances, such as lengthening from stress.〔Gērard (2005) page 34.〕 A schwa was evidently not written: ''dctdid, kśbλtok-''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lydian alphabet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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