Kretschmer 1905

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Paul Kretschmer, "Die Inschriften von Ornavasso und die ligurische Sprache", Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 38 (N.F. 18) (1905), 97–128.

Author/Editor: Paul Kretschmer
Type: epigraphic study, linguistic study
Language: German
Used for: 27 pages (show list)

Commentary

With reference to the inscriptions of Ornavasso, Kretschmer calls the genitive forms in -ui and -ia "unceltic", or at least not belonging to a known Celtic language; he says the same about the -m of the endings and about some words (-pe, pala): for him, the inscriptions are "Ligurian", Indo-European by all means; later contacts with Gaulish can't be excluded.