[Moeller] I should like to give your following
passage to read. The translation belongs to me.
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The unity of the european lingvistic at the end of
the mil. II BC
Arbois de Jubainville (1894) taking as source
Eusebius Pamphilius, shows that at 1100 bc the osco-umbrians migrated from south
of Germany ( today map of the world)in the central Italy.At that time it is
supposed that the proto-thracian-italo-celtic tribes were still not so
differentiated, where the differences among their languages have had more a
dialectal character.Aprox. at the same time, the dorian tribes migrated in greek
theritory from somewhere from vicinity of Danube (this "somewhere" is
interesting -my comment here).All these peoples who migrated in the west and
south directions kept something from thier primary dialects which later became
different languages, some common phonological particularties very appropiate to
be considered as simple coincidences.These particularities tell us these people
lived together in a time.Even Marcus Antoninus Gnipho said that the umbrians are
an old branche of the gallians (M.A.Gnipho lived in first century bc).It is very
probably that MA Gnipho knew the language of the galls and so he could see how
far or not the both languages are and he could observe some paralels between
galic and umbrian, paralels which were not to find with the latin language even
if latin and umbrian are considerate to belong to the same familiy. It is tought
very posible that this author have had some informations regarding the origin of
the umbrians.
Fact is, the common features of the gallic and
umbrian becomes very clear for everyone who becomes familiar with these two
languages ( gallic and umbrian).
On the other hand an another ancient writter
Pytheas from Massilia made a very brave journey an North See in the 4 century bc
and he said that west from Rhin the population is called "celtic" but est of
Rhin this population is called "schytian".Due the fact the greeks considered the
thracians ( better said the north branch of them , the dacians) to be the same
with the schythians, we get an another image of old europe ..etc. etc
etc..
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[Moeller] I should like to see your opinion if
indeed we can say that at that time (1100 BC)is resonable to think the
celto-italic-thracian groups spoked a language which was not so
differentiated, in fact that at 1100 BC the italo-celto-thraco people could be
comprehensible among each other.
best regards
a. moeller