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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. 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.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PhrygiansPhrygians - Wikipedia

    v. t. e. The Phrygians ( Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity. Ancient Greek authors used "Phrygian" as an umbrella term to describe a vast ethno-cultural complex located mainly in the central areas of Anatolia rather than a ...

  4. Mar 18, 2015 · However, little is known about these eastern Mygdones, and no evidence of Phrygian language in that region has been found. Eric P. Hamp in his 2012 Indo-European family tree classified the Phrygian language together with Italo-Celtic as member of a member of a “Northwest Indo-European” group.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 2019 •. Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach. The aim of this paper is to gather together certain relevant features of Phrygian based on our current knowledge of the language in order to determine its dialectal position inside the Indo-European family.

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  8. Apr 17, 2024 · Emile Benveviste tells us that “free” and “liberty" took parallel paths from Celtic and Latin respectively. This is compared to the Phrygian goddess versus the later Greek preference for Zeus. In...

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