From: Rick McCallister
Message: 60983
Date: 2008-10-17
> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>If we have no evidence of a different Noric language, perhaps there was none.
> Subject: [tied] Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 10:49 AM
> --- 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