Noric

Facts

  • Language: Noric
  • Alternate names:
  • Language code: nrc
  • Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Celtic, Nuclear Celtic, Unclassified Nuclear Celtic
  • Number of speakers: Extinct
  • Script: Old Italic

More information:

    Introduction

    The Noric language or Eastern Celtic language was a Continental Celtic language. It is attested in only two fragmentary inscriptions from the Roman province of Noricum (one in Grafenstein, Austria, the other in Ptuj, Slovenia), which do not provide enough information for any conclusions about the nature of the language to be drawn. However, the language was probably similar to the other Celtic languages near to it, such as Gaulish.

    It is not known when it became extinct, because of the scanty evidence.

    The Verb

    Sample

    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: 

     MOGE · ES[ 
 P· II- LAV · EX[
 ṆE · SAḌỊÍES[
 OLLO · SO · VILO[
 ỌNẠ    C[…]

 OLLO · SO · ? [
 P LṾGNṾ · SI

    Verb: