Ancient Cappadocian language

For the language of the Cappadocian Greeks, see Cappadocian Greek.

The ancient Cappadocian language was an ancient language or group of languages spoken in Asia Minor, possibly related to Hittite or Luwian.^[2][3] If Luwian, it may have been related to the dialect of Tabal.^[3] However, there are no known texts in this language.^[4]

Ancient Cappadocian
Region	Asia Minor
Ethnicity	Ancient Cappadocians
Extinct	c. 6th century[1]
Language family	unclassified; possibly Anatolian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Strabo and Basil of Caesarea state that it was not Greek.^[2][5]

It was ultimately replaced by Koine Greek, but appears to have survived in some locations until at least the 6th century CE.^[1]