Home›Short Lyric and Epigrammatic Forms›Language TraditionBrowse ByLanguage TraditionFactsLanguage TraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested300 BCE 1Language TraditionFilter Results3 entriesPlace of OriginAllIndia (1)Philippines (1)United Kingdom (1)GenreAllLyric Poetry (3)Attested From (Year)All1500 BCE (1)701 (1)Difficulty for an English SpeakerAllCategory IV (1)ISO 639-3 CodeAllcym (1)san (1)tgl (1)Speaker CountAll0 (1)538,300 (1)87,000,000 (1)StatusAllClassical (No Native Speakers) (1)Living (2)ToneAllNot Tonal (1)Word OrderAllSOV (1)VSO (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 3SanskritLanguage Tradition1 entryTagalogLanguage Tradition1 entryWelshLanguage Tradition1 entrySources1. Epigram (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationEpigram, Ancient Greek section, Hellenistic-period genre sentenceQuote, Epigram, Ancient Greek section, Hellenistic-period genre sentenceEpigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.