Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@...> wrote:

>
>
> > 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.
>
> There is a large amount of Celtic onomastic material from Noricum. In
> Patrick Sims-Williams recent analyses of Celtic personal names found
> in Latin inscriptions from the Roman period, there was a very high
> density of Celtic names in Noricum - I think perhaps (going from
> memory here) higher than in Roman Gaul.

Problem is, we don't have any criteria to separate some putative
Norican language from 'dialectal Celtic'.


Torsten