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  1. 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 ...

  2. 7.1 Introduction. Many scholars have noted similarities between Italic ( Chapter 8) and Celtic ( Chapter 9 ). Schleicher (1858) was the first to posit an Italo-Celtic node between Proto-Indo-European and Celtic and Italic. 1 But in the 1920s Carl Marstrander and Giacomo Devoto questioned the validity of this subgrouping. 2 Scholarly opinion has ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Italo-CelticItalo-Celtic - Wikipedia

    Italo-Celtic. Indo-Hittite. Indo-Uralic. v. t. e. In historical linguistics, Italo-Celtic is a hypothetical grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo-European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others. There is controversy about the causes of these similarities.

  4. What is commonly accepted is that the shared features may usefully be thought of as "Italo-Celtic forms". Interpretations. The traditional interpretation of the data is, that these two subgroups of the Indo-European language family are generally more closely related to each other, than to the other Indo-European languages.

  5. 9.1 Introduction . This chapter provides an outline of the defining characteristics of the Celtic proto-language and the internal divisions within Celtic. Only languages which are clearly identifiable as Celtic will be included in this treatment, i.e. Goidelic, Brittonic, Gaulish (including Cisalpine, Transalpine and the onomastic material from Central European and Balkanic Celtic ...

  6. The archaic character of the Phrygian language is corroborated by the Indo-Iranian and Italo-Celtic evidence. Download Free PDF View PDF Sound Changes from Old Phrygian to New Phrygian in an Areal Context, handout, "Beyond All Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium B.C.", Ascona, Switzerland, 17 - 22/06/2018

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  8. Phrygian. Phrygian was an Indo-European language related to Dacian and Thracian and belonging to the Paleo-Balkan branch of languages. It was spoken in Central Asia Minor until about the 5th century AD. The earliest known inscriptions in Phyrgian date from the 8th century BC and were written in an alphabet derived from Phoenician.