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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
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.
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The r-passive (mediopassive voice) was initially thought to be an innovation restricted to Italo-Celtic until it was found to be a retained archaism shared with Hittite, Tocharian, and possibly the Phrygian language.
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Phrygian language, ancient Indo-European language of west-central Anatolia. Textual evidence for Phrygian falls into two distinct groups. Old Phrygian texts date from the 8th to 3rd centuries bce and are written in an alphabet related to but different from that of Greek.
The principal Italo-Celtic forms are: the thematic genitive in ī ( dominus , domin ī ). Both in Italic ( Popliosio Valesiosio , Lapis Satricanus ) and in Celtic ( Lepontic , Celtiberian -o ), traces of the -osyo genitive of Proto-Indo-European have also been discovered, which might indicate that the spread of the ī genitive occurred in the ...
This article provides specific details on the alphabetic script and language of the Phrygians, who appeared in Anatolia during the Early Iron Age.
Details of Phrygian, an extinct Paleo-Balkan language spoken in parts of Central Asia Minor until about 5th century AD, and written with its own alphabet.
