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3 days ago · Phrygia describes an area on the western end of the high Anatolian plateau, an arid region quite unlike the forested lands to the north and west of it. Phrygia begins in the northwest where an area of dry steppe is diluted by the Sakarya and Porsuk river system and is home to the settlements of Dorylaeum near modern Eskişehir, and the Phrygian ...
Jul 13, 2024 · Thraco-Phrygian or Thraco-Armenian hypothesis. For a long time a Thraco-Phrygian hypothesis grouping Thracian with the extinct Phrygian language was considered, largely based on Greek historians like Herodotus and Strabo. By extension of identifying Phrygians with Proto-Armenians, a Thraco-Phrygian branch of Indo-European was postulated with ...
3 days ago · The Celtic languages ( / ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tik) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic. [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 by classical writers and the Welsh and ...
Jul 4, 2024 · Insular Celtic refers to the Celtic languages of the British Isles, together with Breton (spoken in Brittany, France). As the name Breton implies, it is an importation from Britain and is not a Continental Celtic dialect. Although there is some scanty evidence from classical sources—mainly place-names—and a small body of inscriptions in the ...
Jul 10, 2024 · Work notes on the Phrygian texts — a survey of Etruscan Phrases texts 3 Phrygia's neighbors: the Trojan allies In the Catalogue of Ships invading Troy (Iliad Book II), in addition to listing the Greek allies — of many languages, he says — Homer lists the allies of Troy.They include Lydians (called Maeonians) and Phrygians, whom we can presume to have been "nations" in Anatolia about 1180 ...
Jul 4, 2024 · Another feature of Insular Celtic is its lack of the infinitive form of the verb found in most other Indo-European languages— e.g., English “to do,” “to call.”. The equivalent is the verbal noun, which is a noun closely linked to the verb, though not necessarily derived from the same stem. Being a noun, it can have a following noun in ...
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4 days ago · Welcome. The Irish Texts Society/Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge was established in 1898 to advance public education by promoting the study of Irish literature. The focus of the Society from the beginning has been on the publication of texts in the Irish language, accompanied by introductions, English translations, glossaries and notes.
