What is the relationship between Celtic and other Indo-European languages?
- The question of the relationship of Common Celtic to the other Indo-European languages remains open. For some time, it was held that Celtic stood in an especially close relation to the Italic branch; some scholars even spoke of a period when an Italo-Celtic “nation” existed, toward the end of the 2nd millennium bc.
An alternative theory, suggested by Eric P. Hamp, is that Phrygian was most closely related to Italo-Celtic languages. [23] [24] Inscriptions [ edit] The Phrygian epigraphical material is divided into two distinct subcorpora, Old Phrygian and New Phrygian.
- After the 5th century AD
- Indo-European, (?) Graeco-PhrygianPhrygian
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 139, 2020. The Phrygian Language Author: Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach 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.
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Though specific Italo-Celtic innovations are few, the languages of this branch developed along parallel lines and preserved important traces of an original linguistic system which contained a wide variety of different formations with a considerable time depth. The material has too often been interpreted in terms of other languages.
- Frederik Kortlandt
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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- Italic, Celtic, Ligurian†?, Lusitanian†?
- Indo-EuropeanItalo-Celtic
1917 Related most closely to Celtic (J. Charpentier) 1922 Related to Phrygian and, more distantly, to Armenian (E. Hermann) 1923 Related in the first instance to Thracian and Phrygian, in the second to Armenian and Balto-Slavic, and in the third to Germanic (J. Pokorny) 1925 Part of a group with Italo-Celtic, Phrygian, and Hittite (H. Pedersen ...