Re: Romance or Romanic?

----- Original Message -----
From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, August 9, 1999 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Romance or Romanic?

> I've read that Lepontic is Celtic, but can't verify.  I've only ever been
> able to find one short text: Lathumarui Saphsuthaipe uinom Nashom, which
> was given the translation Naxos wine for Latumaros and Sapsta.
>
> I was taught that there was some kind of Italo-Celtic group as well; but
> we didn't go into details.  I was never sure if this was a "done deal" or
> merely a theory.
AFAIK, Italo-Celtic refers to a hypothetical branch of IE languages, based
on certain similar characteristics which Celtic and Italic languages share
but which are missing from other IE languages. I can't remember much about
them offhand, but I know one such characteristic is the use of -i in the
genitive.

I think it's still just a theory.