Gaulish language - Grammar

There was some areal (or genetic, see Italo-Celtic) similarity to Latin grammar, and the French historian A. Lot argued that this helped the rapid adoption of Latin in Roman Gaul. Gaulish language - Cases. Gaulish has six or seven cases (Lambert 2003 pp.51-67). In common with Latin it has nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive and dative; where Latin has an ablative, Gaulish has an instrumental and may also have a locative. There is more evidence for common cases (nominative and accusative) and for com ...

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[χ] is an allophone of /k/ before /t/. Gaulish language - Orthography. The alphabet of Lugano used in Gallia Cisalpina for Lepontic: AEIKLMNOPRSTΘUVXZ The alphabet of Lugano does not distinguish voiced and unvoiced occlusives, i.e. P represents /b/ or /p/, T is for /t/ or /d/, K for /g/ or /k/. Z is probably for /ts/. U /u/ and V /w/ are distinguished. Θ is probably for /t/ and X for /g/. The Eastern Greek alphabet used in southern Gallia Transalpina:

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The earliest Continental Celtic inscriptions, dating to as early as the 6th century BC, are in Lepontic (sometimes considered a dialect of Gaulish), found in Gallia Cisalpina and were written in a form of the Old Italic alphabet. Inscriptions in the Greek alphabet from the 3rd century BC have been found in the area near the mouths of the Rhone, while later inscriptions dating to Roman Gaul are mostly in the Latin alphabet. Gregory of Tours wrote in the 6th century that some p ...

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The Gaulish corpus is edited in the Receuil des Inscriptions Gauloises (R.I.G.), in four volumes: Vol. 1: Inscriptions in the Greek alphabet, edited by Michel Lejeune (items G-1 –G-281) Vol. 2.1: Inscriptions in the Etruscan alphabet (Lepontic, items E-1 – E-6), and inscriptions in the Latin alphabet in stone (items L1 – L-16), edited by Michel Lejeune Vol. 2.2: inscriptions in the Latin alphabet on instruments (ceramic, lead, glass etc.), edited by Pierre-Yves Lambert (items L-18 – L-139) < ...

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