Carian is an Anatolian language of the first millennium BC with limited attestations. Its corpus consists of glosses and inscriptions in Carian alphabet, found in Egypt (inscriptions on funerary stele and other objects), but also in Caria (about 30 inscriptions), Greece (two inscriptions) and Lydia and Lycia. As for its vocabulary, of the less than thousand attested words, most are personal names. Neither a single adjective nor an adposition is known. Therefore, this Anatolian language does not provide us with any data on adjective valence.

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