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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
Italo-Celtic. 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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Summary. 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
To sum up: the similarities noticed between Italic and other Indo-European branches are predominantly lexical, and, when we compare these similarities to the ones noted between Italic and Celtic, the case for Proto-Italo-Celtic seems all the stronger .
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 Iliad describes the Phrygians as allies of the Trojans during the Trojan War (Homer, Iliad 2.862, 3.184–88, 16.717–19, 24.545), which would suggest that the Phrygians were established in their Anatolian territory during the Late Bronze Age.
