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 different materials, and have different geographical distributions.
- After the 5th century AD
- Indo-European, (?) Graeco-PhrygianPhrygian
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Sep 15, 2022 · Whether one recognizes an Italo-Celtic node or not, the fact remains that Italic shares more innovative features with Celtic than with any other branch. Footnote 19 Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that both Italic and Celtic individually and in common share many features with Germanic.
The traditional interpretation of the data is that both sub-groups of the Indo-European language family are generally more closely related to each other than to the other Indo-European languages. That could imply that they are descended from a common ancestor, Proto-Italo-Celtic, which can be partly reconstructed by the comparative method.
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- Italic, Celtic, Ligurian†?, Lusitanian†?
- Indo-EuropeanItalo-Celtic
1 Answer. Sorted by: 4. The languages were probably very close and most likely mutually intelligible at least to some degree, which is why we postulate the Italo-Celtic branch of IE languages. Of course neither of these language states are attested but what we reconstruct shows many similarities.