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Phrygian provides in several respects the missing link between Greek and Armenian. In particular, the paradigms of the middle voice appear to have been more extensive than what we find in the separate languages. The archaic character of the Phrygian language is corroborated by the Indo-Iranian and Italo-Celtic evidence.
Sep 19, 2023 · Phrygian Language provides an updated overview of this ancient language documented in central Anatolia between the 8th century AD and the Roman Imperial period.
Compare, for example, Ringe, Warnow, and Taylor (2002), who posit an Italo-Celtic subgroup (although they admit the evidence is slender), with the criticisms of Isaac (2004: 54 ff.), who calls the Italo-Celtic hypothesis obsolete. – Nicholas Zair; p. 2035: This concludes the possible cases of Italo-Celtic isoglosses. Despite the continuing ...
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.
Phrygian provides in several respects the missing link between Greek and Armenian. In particular, the paradigms of the middle voice appear to have been more extensive than what we find in the separate languages. The archaic character of the Phrygian language is corroborated by the Indo-Iranian and Italo-Celtic evidence.
But in practice, neither Macedonian nor Phrygian language data, nor ungrouped Italo-Celtic languages were needed, and there was only one case (‘lake’) where Nuristani data substitutes Iranian, which is compensated by the presence 65 Dmitry M. Bystrov, Mikhail S. Yastrebov-Pestritskiy of the corresponding word in Sanskrit.
Phrygian provides in several respects the missing link between Greek and Armenian. In particular, the paradigms of the middle voice appear to have been more extensive than what we find in the separate languages. The archaic character of the Phrygian language is corroborated by the Indo-Iranian and Italo-Celtic evidence.
