Re: [tied] Re: Pictish

But then again St. Columba, who spoke Gaelic, could speak with Britons in
Strathclyde, but needed translators to speak with the Picts. I can think
of 2 possibilities:

1. The Britons of Strathclyde knew how to speak Gaelic, and so could
talk to St. Columba, but the Picts, though speaking a Brittonic dialect,
couldn't speak Gaelic and so couldn't talk to St. Columba.

or

2. The language of the Picts was different enough from the Britons to
make Pictish and Brittonic mutually unintelligable, and thus maybe
Pictish was far enough removed Brittonic that it was a seperate Celtic
dialect.

Thoughts?

-Michael

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:55:16 -0000 "CG" <sonno3@...> writes:

> > [Davius] But in science any belief must be supported by some
> >evidence... what are exactly the linguistics evidences that support
>
> >celticness of Pictish language?
>
> The Celticness of Pictish really isn't that questionable anymore -
> the non-ogham material (ie, Pictish placenames, and personal names
> recorded in Welsh, Irish, and Latin sources) shows a clear affinity
> with the other Brittonic languages - the difficulty with the ogham
> inscriptions is likely due to the fact that we don't really have the
>
> key to the peculiar orthography that the Picts used (it differed
> from
> Irish ogham orthography), and many of the Pictish stones are
> damaged,
> or severely weathered, which hinders proper readings of the
> inscriptions. Many of the ogham inscriptions display words and names
>
> that are clearly related to Brittonic dialects, however. Most modern
>
> Celticists see Pictish as simply being a dialect of Brittonic.
>
> - Chris Gwinn
>
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