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Anatolian
Ethnicity:	Anatolians
Geographic distribution:	formerly in Anatolia
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Anatolian
Proto-language:	Proto-Anatolian
Subdivisions:	Hittite Palaic Lydian Luwic

The Anatolian languages were a branch of Indo-European languages. They are now extinct. They were spoken in Asia Minor (ancient Anatolia) in modern-day Turkey. There are three, or maybe four, known branches.

Melchert (2012) has organised them like this:^[1]

• Proto-Anatolian
  • Hittite
  • Palaic
  • Luwic
    • Luwian
    • Lycian
    • Milyan
    • Carian
    • Sidetic
    • Pisidian
  • (?) Lydian