From: Rick McCallister
Message: 60975
Date: 2008-10-17
> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>FWIW Wikipedia sees the people as Illyrians who were supplanted by Celts (ruling and writing class?). See anything Illyrian in any of this? It would be nice to have a thick cmprehensive Illyrian right about now, wouldn't it?
> Subject: Re: [tied] Identity of the 'language of geminates'
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 4:02 AM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 10/16/08, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > > From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> > > Subject: Re: [tied] Identity of the 'language
> of geminates'
> > > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 2:40 PM
> > > > We know that one of the languages of Noricum
> was
> > > Celtic, thanks to 2
> > > > Noric inscriptions found in present day
> Austria.
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noricum#Language
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noric_language
> > > That should permit you to conclude yourself how
> solid the
> > > evidence is
> > > that Noric is Celtic.
> > > Note the two cases of geminate -l-: ollo
> >
> > So, what's your spin on the language of Ptuj et
> al.?
> > Noricum was next to Celtic speaking areas, in the
> midst, if you
> > wish. There are Celtic topos in Austria.
>
> I think the whole matter needs reconsideration. The town of
> Hallstatt
> is close to Noricum, but now people are questioning the
> Celticity of
> Hallstatt, since it's influence didn't extend to
> Ireland, which is
> clearly Celtic, nor
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_culture
> (according to the list, but not the map) to Britain and
> Spain. What
> the result will be, I don't know.
>
>
> Torsten