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2 days ago · However, Eric P. Hamp suggests that Phrygian was related to Italo-Celtic in a hypothetical "Northwest Indo-European" group. According to Herodotus, the Phrygians were initially dwelling in the southern Balkans under the name of Bryges (Briges), changing it to Phruges after their final migration to Anatolia, via the Hellespont.
2 days ago · The Celtic languages ( / ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tik) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. [1] The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, [2] following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described ...
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4 days ago · The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested in writing, but has been reconstructed to some degree through the comparative method. Proto-Italic descended from the earlier Proto-Indo-European language. [1]
- ca. 1000 BC
- Italic languages
3 days ago · This makes it difficult, at first sight at least, to understand how Irish poets like Aogán Ó Rathaille and Liam Inglis could celebrate the prospect of such a restoration in terms of the return of the Irish language to its former dominance and the eclipse of 'Beurla na m-búr' (the English of the boors) (pp. 276, 159).
2 days ago · My emphasis on the language of the Greeks, calling for comparison with the testimony of related Indo-European languages including Latin, Indic, and Hittite, reflects my long-standing interest in Indo-European linguistics, a discipline that has in the past been successfully applied to the systematic study of society in such pioneering works as ...
For each of the fragmentary languages, there's usually at least a best guess as to where they should go relative to the secure branches, e.g. Lusitanian is Para-Italic, Para-Celtic, or a third branch of Italo-Celtic (if that's real) depending on who you ask (Garcia-Alonso 2023), Messapic gets grouped with Albanian (Matzinger 2005), Siculian ...
Kings around Greece speaking languages closely related to Greek sometimes had names from legendary kings (Phrygian Midas < *med- ‘rule’, likely Bithynian Ziboítēs \ Tiboítēs \ Zeipoítēs was cognate with G. despótēs < *dems-poti- ‘master’), so a common tradition about a King named ‘wolf-like’ is not out of the question.
