| 1. | The Anatolian languages were a branch of the larger Indo-European language family.
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| 2. | Many of the invaders settled in Anatolia, sometimes causing the extinction of the Anatolian languages.
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| 3. | Various alphabetic writing systems were in use in Iron Age Anatolia to record Anatolian languages and syllabic scripts.
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| 4. | Many of these invaders settled in Anatolia, in some cases causing the extinction of the Anatolian languages.
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| 5. | The Anatolian languages are the first Indo-European language family to have split off from the main group.
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| 6. | In the Anatolian languages, which were the earliest to split from PIE, thematic verbs are rare or absent.
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| 7. | The Anatolians were a group of distinct Indo-European peoples who spoke the Anatolian languages and shared a common culture.
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| 8. | Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct Anatolian languages.
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| 9. | The animate gender would then later, after the separation of the Anatolian languages, have developed into the feminine and masculine genders.
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| 10. | However, it is clear that the Indo-European Anatolian languages have been spoken in Anatolia since at least the 19th century BC.
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