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An alternative theory, suggested by Eric P. Hamp, is that Phrygian was most closely related to Italo-Celtic languages. Inscriptions. The Phrygian epigraphical material is divided into two distinct subcorpora, Old Phrygian and New Phrygian. These attest different stages of the Phrygian language, are written with different alphabets and upon ...
languages, the former representing an epenthetic vowel that sometimes preserves the color of the laryngeal in Italo-Celtic (Schrijver 1991: 56-73), Graeco-Phrygian (Kortlandt 2016d: 250f.), and Armenian (Kortlandt 2003: 75-78). The consonantal reflexes are a glottal stop in Anatolian, Graeco-Phrygian (circumflex from hiatus in
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The r-passive (mediopassive voice) was initially thought to be an innovation restricted to Italo-Celtic until it was found to be a retained archaism shared with Hittite, Tocharian, and possibly the Phrygian language.
This chapter discusses the evidence for the existence of an intermediate subgroup Proto-Italo-Celtic, the parent of Proto-Italic and Proto-Celtic. The chapter also examines the connections between Italic and Celtic and the other northwest Indo-European subgroups.
This book provides an updated view of our knowledge about Phrygian, an Indo-European language attested to have been spoken in Anatolia between the 8th century BC and the Roman Imperial period.
- Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
Not only does the Phrygian language have a particularly close kinship with Greek, but its testimonies in Hellenistic and Roman times must be contextualised with regard to its contact with this language and alphabet.
Frederik Kortlandt. We can think of Thracian as an early dialect of Proto-Armenian. Both languages shared the devoicing of the PIE glottalic stops *b, *d, *g to *p, *t, *k. The alleged voiced aspirates appear as plain voiced stops. The voiceless stops remained unchanged. The Thracians evidently did not perceive the aspiration of the Greeks.
