Northern Piken language
The northern Piken language is a language of an unknown language family that has so far only been handed down in an inscription. To this day it has remained unexplained and isolated, or rather unclassified , but very probably not Indo-European. Possible connections to other ancient European languages, such as Etruscan , are discussed. The language was spoken in ancient times by the Piceni in the area around Novilara in the province of Pesaro and Urbino . They came in the 10th or 9th century BC. In this area. It is believed that they came by sea from the Balkans or that they were a group of scattered Sabines who, according to an old legend, were brought here by a woodpecker (still the heraldic animal of the Marche province ). The limestone stele with the inscription is in the Archaeological Museum Oliveriano in Pesaro . It came to light in the early Iron Age necropolis near Novilara.
Since Northern Pikish was written in the old Italian alphabet, it can be transliterated and thus "read", a translation (interpretation) has not yet succeeded.
North Piken is not to be confused with the certainly Indo-European South Piken .
See also
literature
- Karl W. Beinhauer: Investigations into the Iron Age burial places of Novilara (Province of Pesaro and Urbino / Italy). Archeology, anthropology, demography. Methods and Models, 2 volumes. Haag & Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1985, 1998; ISBN 3-88129-767-7 .
- Luisa Franchi Dell'Orto (ed.): The Picener - a people of Europe. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt December 12, 1999 - February 6, 2000. Edizioni De Luca, Rome 1999. ISBN 88-8016-330-2 .
References
- ↑ Dieter H. Steinbauer: Vaskonisch - Original Language of Europe? In: Günter Hauska (Ed.): Genes, languages and their evolutions. University of Regensburg. Universitätsverlag, Regensburg 2005; ISBN 3-930480-46-8