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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.
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 ...
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.
The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, spoken in Anatolia , during classical antiquity . Phrygian ethno-linguistic homogeneity is debatable. 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 name of a single "tribe" or "people". Because of the ...
I believe in Italo-Celtic, and a grouping above that containing Italo-Celtic, Helleno-Phrygian, and Germanic. Also, a grouping of Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranic, Armenian, and maybe Albanian. I think Albanian might actually be its own thing though, as in some instances it actually retains the original ḱ k kʷ distinction according to Wikipedia's ...
They are probably more closely related to each other than to any other IE branch, both originating in a Western-Central European dialectal area. So I think it's plausible to speak of an Italo-Celtic subgroup within the IE family. It would be very old though and it would have included other, long extinct languages besides Celtic and Italic.
View PDF. The Indo-European k-aorist. Frederik Kortlandt. The k-aorist originated from a common development of Italic, Greek, Phrygian, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian and Tocharian and may not be dated later than non-Anatolian Indo-European. The k-perfect developed from the resultative interpretation of the k-aorist.
