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Phrygian language

The Phrygian language is an old language that some people used to speak a very long time ago. It was spoken in an area called Phrygia, which is now part of modern-day Turkey. The language sounds different from English because the words are made up of different sounds and letters.

Just like how you learn new words in school, people in the past learned Phrygian words from their parents and friends. They would say things like "hello" and "goodbye" in Phrygian instead of English. Some of the buildings and artifacts from the time when Phrygian was spoken still exist today, and they can help us learn more about how the language was used.

But because nobody speaks Phrygian anymore, it's hard for us to know exactly how it was pronounced or how the grammar worked. That's why it's considered a dead language, meaning that nobody uses it anymore as their primary way of communicating. But by studying old texts and artifacts, we can learn more about people who spoke Phrygian and the world they lived in.
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