From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 3407
Date: 2000-08-27
----- Original Message -----From: ARKURGAL@...Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 9:22 PMSubject: [tied] LusitaniansLusitanian was used in NW Spain and N Portugal about AD 200. Cyril Babaevsays Lusitanian was non-IE, but the consensus of competent scholars is that it's IE, though its affiliations can hardly be made clear on the basis of just a couple of inscriptions (Cyril also says that the Lusitanians used the Iberian script, but in fact the Lusitanian texts are written in ordinary Roman script). Some have claimed that it's hardly different from Celtiberian, but some comprehensible Lusitanian words look definitely non-Celtic, esp. tauro 'bull' (no metathesis to *tarwo-) and porcom 'pig' (no loss of *p). It's presumably the remnant of a pre-Celtic IE substrate of the Iberian Penninsula, perhaps somehow related to the Italo-Celtic languages. There is an article by Blanca Prósper on the Cabeço das Fráguas inscription in the last issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society, but I haven't read it yet, nor do I know what the author's opinion is.PiotrI could not read the complete article about the Lusitanians and the
Iberians,therefore, I would like to listen to any new theory about
the Lusitanians, archaic indo-european Folk.
Another subject, a matter of curiosity: why is the eight-armed wheel
the symbol of this site? Does it have an important meaning within the
indo-european culture?