Re: [tied] Pictish

From: Davius Sanctex
Message: 24762
Date: 2003-07-22

 
Which are the 5 languages in Britain Bede mentioned? Goidelic, Brittonic, Pictish ... and the others?
 
About the the pictish inscriptions i ogham script, there is some tentative decipherment (that is assignation of phonetic values) that it allows to see clearly its celtic-ness. I have read that the conventional readins my be wrong assignements of phonetic values, for example the readings offered here:
http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/Pictish%20Inscriptions.html
 
Davius