The Anatolian languages are a family of extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in Asia Minor (ancient Anatolia), the best attested of them being the Hittite language. The term Anatolian is also used to mean any language spoken in Anatolia, whether it belonged to the Anatolian family or not. Phrygian, for example, was possibly related to the Armenian language, which belongs to a different branch of the Indo-European language family than the one to which Hittite belongs.
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