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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 ...
- After the 5th century AD
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.
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Phrygians. 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 ...
This chapter discusses the evidence for the existence of an intermediate subgroup Proto-Italo-Celtic, the parent of Proto-Italic and Proto-Celtic. The chapter also examines the connections between Italic and Celtic and the other northwest Indo-European subgroups.
The archaic character of the Phrygian language is corroborated by the Indo-Iranian and Italo-Celtic evidence. Download Free PDF View PDF Sound Changes from Old Phrygian to New Phrygian in an Areal Context, handout, "Beyond All Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium B.C.", Ascona, Switzerland, 17 - 22/06/2018
- Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
During the 3rd century BC, a group of Gauls settled amongst the Phrygians in Anatolia. Those Celtic speaking people became known as Galatians to the locals. Their ruling class becomes quickly Hellenized and do not contribute linguistically to the Phrygian language, apart from the personal name “Bodoris” and the lexeme “teutous ...
Phrygian has a special status in that it is an Indo-European language found in Anatolia that does not share the defining features of the so-called Anatolian languages, a group of Hittite, Luwian, and related languages; presumably, its presence in the region reflects a later population movement.