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Ogham ( / ˈɒɡəm / OG-əm, [4] Modern Irish: [ˈoː (ə)mˠ]; Middle Irish: ogum, ogom, later ogam [ˈɔɣəmˠ] [5] [6]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language ( scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).
Mar 20, 2017 · Ogham was the written version of Primitive Irish – the oldest form of the Irish language. Most of our current knowledge about Primitive Irish comes from the dozens of Ogham Stones located throughout the country. Ogham was carved and read from bottom to top. The alphabet originally comprised three groups of consonants and one group of vowels.
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Old Irish is the ancestor of all modern Goidelic languages: Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. A still older form of Irish is known as Primitive Irish. Fragments of Primitive Irish, mainly personal names, are known from inscriptions on stone written in the Ogham alphabet. The inscriptions date from about the 4th to the 6th centuries.
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The history of the Irish language begins with the period from the arrival of speakers of Celtic languages in Ireland to Ireland's earliest known form of Irish, Primitive Irish, which is found in Ogham inscriptions dating from the 3rd or 4th century AD. [1] After the conversion to Christianity in the 5th century, Old Irish begins to appear as ...
Mar 5, 2020 · The etymological study of Early Irish began in the Old Irish period (c. 700‒900 a.d .), under the influence of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, and, because of its flexible hermeneutic potential, it enjoyed great popularity in the middle and early modern periods. It is only with the rise of modern comparative linguistics, especially of ...
The oldest physically surviving examples of Irish-language literacy are a few hundred inscriptions written in the Morse code –like alphabet called ogham. Almost all of these simply record names of people. They are found carved on large stones across southern Ireland (particularly Cork and Kerry) and in Irish-influenced parts of western ...
