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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 ...
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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygia#Phrygian_language. So linguistics says that Phrygian is a north-western, italo-celtic language from the Hallstatt culture.
The English Etymology by George Lemon suggests that the Phrygian ethnonym Bryges is related to ‘free’ by its definition, lending ample cause for the hypothetical relationship between the...
Download Free PDF. View PDF. 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. Although a linguistic and epigraphic approach is the core.
- Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
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.
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 ...
