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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Phrygian_languagePhrygian language - Wikipedia

    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 ...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Italo-CelticItalo-Celtic - Wikipedia

    Italo-Celtic. Indo-Hittite. Indo-Uralic. v. 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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  4. www.cambridge.org › core › booksItalo-Celtic (Chapter 7) - The Indo-European Language Family

    7.1 Introduction. Many scholars have noted similarities between Italic ( Chapter 8) and Celtic ( Chapter 9 ). Schleicher (1858) was the first to posit an Italo-Celtic node between Proto-Indo-European and Celtic and Italic. 1 But in the 1920s Carl Marstrander and Giacomo Devoto questioned the validity of this subgrouping. 2 Scholarly opinion has ...

  5. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 36332Phrygian and the Phrygians | The Oxford Handbook of Ancient ...

    Abstract. This article provides specific details on the alphabetic script and language of the Phrygians, who appeared in Anatolia during the Early Iron Age, ca. 1200–1000 BCE and retained a distinctive identity there until the end of Classical antiquity. Phrygian settlements can be recognized by the presence of texts in the Phrygian language ...

  6. www.britannica.com › topic › Phrygian-languagePhrygian language | Anatolian, Indo-European, Ancient

    H. Craig Melchert. 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 majority of those that.

  7. academic.oup.com › book › 45752The Kingdom of Phrygia | The Oxford History of the Ancient ...

    865–C45P151. Published: March 2023. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter provides an overview of Phrygian history and its sources. It discusses the origins and language of the Phrygians and introduces the available text corpus.

  8. www.degruyter.com › document › doiOn the place of Phrygian among the Indo-European languages

    2 Direct sources for Phrygian are inscriptions found in central Anatolia. These inscriptions are gathered in two main corpora. Old Phrygian (OPhr., also known as Paleo-Phrygian) is the label for the inscriptions dated to between 800 and 330 BC and written in an epichoric alphabet closely related to the Greek one. The inscriptions