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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4875 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes  Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 9 of 11 11 March 2012 at 11:27pm | IP Logged |
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True, but if you can find systematic differences between another language and Thracian (at least with the 180
or so known words), you might be able to reconstruct more words, even if there's a degree of uncertainty on whether those words ever existed. Ultimately, I admit, they'll probably need to find more inscriptions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tanya b Senior Member United States Joined 4587 days ago 159 posts - 518 votes Speaks: Russian | Message 10 of 11 12 March 2012 at 5:48am | IP Logged |
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Thracian a dead language? I don't think so. Not unless you consider Armenian a dead
Armenian is the only surviving member of the Thraco-Phrygian language and supposedly most of its vocabulary has some connection with Thracian. I happen to be one of the few non-Armenians who is fluent in Armenian. Nowadays Armenian has been so heavily influenced by Farsi (vowels), and Georgian (consonants), that it bears no resemblance to the original Thracian, but it is at its foundation, a Balkan, Indo-European language, but completely isolated like Albanian and Greek. How about a Thracian movie with Macedonian subtitles? That would be fun. Edited by tanya b on 12 March 2012 at 5:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| manish Triglot Groupie Romania Joined 5355 days ago 88 posts - 136 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 11 12 March 2012 at 10:45am | IP Logged |
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Armenian bears some resemblance to Greek and Phrygian, but linking Thracian and Phrygian is one step too many, I think. Armenian is not in some way a descendant of Thracian... At least not according to the linguist mainstream.
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