Isaurian is an
extinct language spoken in the area of
Isauria,
Asia Minor. Epigraphic evidence, including funerary inscriptions, has been found into the 6th century AD.[1][2] The personal names of its speakers appear to be derived from
Luwian and thus
Indo-European.[3] Isaurian names containing clear
Anatolian roots include Οαδας Oadas, Τροκονδας Trokondas (cf.
LuwianTarḫunt,Lycian 𐊗𐊕𐊌𐊌𐊑𐊗 Trqqñt), Κουδεις Koudeis (cf. Lycian Kuwata), and Μοασις Moasis (cf.
Hittitemuwa "power").[4]
The Isaurian personal name Τουατρις Touatris may reflect the Indo-European word for 'daughter' (compare Hieroglyphic Luwian FILIAtú-wa/i-tara/i-na).[5]
^Holl, Karl. “Das Fortleben Der Volkssprachen in Kleinasien in Nachchristlicher Zeit.” Hermes, vol. 43, no. 2, 1908, pp. 242. JSTOR,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4473126. Accessed 16 Jun. 2022.
^Frank R. Trombley and John W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Liverpool University Press, 2000), p. 12; Linda Honey, "Justifiably Outraged or Simply Outrageous? The Isaurian Incident of Ammianus Marcellinus 14.2," in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices (Ashgate, 2006), 50.