Re: Celtic Origins


"Alan Crozier" <name1.name2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "bernard" <bernard_connor11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Thanks for the additional data. Did any written material in
> the Gallic
>> language survive?. It was clearly celtic as ther are over 20
> places
>> mainly in western France that end in -oc, or -ac.
>
> Not a lot survives, just proper names and some inscriptions
> including the famous Coligny calendar. For an introduction see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaulish_language
>

There are also some "curse tablets" and inscribed spindle whorls that
have been found and dictionaries and lexicons of the language have been
developed using linguistic techniques to reconstruct it:

W. Meid, Gaulish Inscriptions: their interpretation in the light of
archaeological evidence and their value as a source of linguistic and
sociological information. Archaeolingua Series Minor 1, Budapest 1992,
p. 54.

W. Meid, Altkeltische Sprachen I. Kratylos 43, 1998, pp. 20 - 21.

http://members.tripod.com/adolfozavaroni/lepontic.htm

Meid, Wolfgang. Die erste Botorrita Inschrift : Interpretation eines
keltiberischen Sprachdenkmals. 1993. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur
Sprachwissenschaft 70, ISBN 3-85124-639-X.

Stefan Schumacher, Die keltischen Primärverben. Ein vergleichendes,
etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon. Unter Mitarbeit von Britta
Schulze-Thulin und Caroline aan de Wiel (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur
Sprachwissenschaft, Bd. 110), Innsbruck 2004. 791 pages, ISBN
3-85124-692-6.

Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du
vieux-celtique continental by Xavier Delamarre and P.Y. Lambert

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