The
Lemnian language was a language spoken on the island of
Lemnos in the 6th century BC. It is mainly attested by an inscription found on a funerary
stele, termed the
Lemnos stele, discovered in 1885 near
Kaminia. Fragments of inscriptions on local pottery show that it was spoken there by a community. In 2009, a newly discovered inscription from Efestia was reported. Lemnian is accepted as being closely related to
Etruscan. After the
Athenians conquered the island in the latter half of the 6th century, Lemnian was replaced by
Attic Greek.