Social:Noric language

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Short description: Extinct Celtic language of Central Europe
Noric
Native toAustria, Slovenia
EthnicityTaurisci
Eraattested 2nd century AD
Indo-European
  • Celtic
    • Noric
Language codes
ISO 639-3nrc
nrc
Glottolognori1240[1]

The Noric language, or Eastern Celtic, was an unclassified Continental Celtic language. It is attested in only two fragmentary inscriptions from the Roman province of Noricum (one in Grafenstein, Carinthia, Austria, the other in Ptuj, Slovenia). These do not provide enough information to draw conclusions about the language. However, it was probably similar to other Celtic languages near to it, such as Gaulish. No evidence yet shows when it became extinct.

Ptuj inscription

ARTEBUDZBROGDUI (a facsimile of the original inscription, written right to left)

The Ptuj inscription, discovered in 1894, is written right to left in a northern Italic alphabet[2] and reads:

𐌀𐌓𐌕𐌄𐌁𐌖𐌈𐌆𐌁𐌓𐌏𐌙𐌈𐌖𐌉

ARTEBUDZBROGDUI

This is interpreted as two personal names: Artebudz [son] of Brogduos.[3] The name Artebudz may mean "bear penis"[4] (compare Welsh arth "bear" and Irish bod "penis"), while Brogduos may contain the element brog-, mrog- "country"[5] (compare Welsh bro "region, country"). Alternatively, the inscription may be interpreted as Artebudz [made this] for Brogdos, with the second name in the dative case.[6]

Grafenstein inscription

Grafenstein inscription & facsimile

The Grafenstein inscription, on a tile from the 2nd century AD that was discovered in a gravel pit in 1977, is incomplete, but the extant part has been transcribed as follows:[2]

Here, Moge seems to be a personal name or an abbreviation of one, P· II- lav a Latin abbreviation indicating a weight, ne sadiíes a verbal form possibly meaning "you (singular) do not set", ollo so perhaps "this amount", and Lugnu another personal name. The text may therefore be a record of some sort of financial transaction.[2]

Other readings of the inscription have also been proposed, including:

and

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Noric". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nori1240. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Stifter, David (12 October 2007). "Keltisch in Österreich (Powerpoint)" (in de). http://homepage.univie.ac.at/ilja.steffelbauer/stifter.zip.  Stifter, David (12 October 2007). "Keltisch in Österreich (PDF of lecture)" (in de). http://homepage.univie.ac.at/ilja.steffelbauer/stifter.pdf. 
  3. ↑ "Vase de Ptuj" (in fr). Encyclopédie de l'arbre celtique. http://www.arbre-celtique.com/encyclopedie/vase-de-ptuj-4454.htm. Retrieved 9 January 2008. 
  4. ↑ (in it) Il Vocabolario Celtico. pp. p. 87, p. 89. http://www.melegnano.net/celti/francel01a087.htm. Retrieved 9 January 2008. 
  5. ↑ Falileyev, A.. Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names. http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2160/282/6/IntroAndElements.pdf. Retrieved 9 January 2008. 
  6. ↑ "Quellentexte: Ptuj" (in de). http://www.univie.ac.at/indogermanistik/quellentexte.cgi?49. 
  7. ↑ "Quellentexte: Grafenstein". http://www.univie.ac.at/indogermanistik/quellentexte.cgi?3. 
  8. ↑ "Tuile de Grafenstein" (in fr). Encyclopédie de l'arbre celtique. http://www.arbre-celtique.com/encyclopedie/tuile-de-grafenstein-4455.htm. Retrieved 9 January 2008. 



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