Noric language
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other A language believed to have been Celtic was spoken in ancient times in the Roman province of Noricum. This language is referred to as Noric or Eastern Celtic. It was probably a Continental Celtic language but the data is too limited to allow for classification. Its existence is inferred from only two fragmentary inscriptions, one in Grafenstein, Carinthia, Austria, the other in Ptuj, Slovenia. These inscriptions provide limited information but it is believed to have been similar to other Celtic languages near it, such as Gaulish. No evidence yet shows when it became extinct.
Ptuj inscription
The Ptuj inscription, discovered in 1894, is written right to left in a northern Italic alphabet[1] and reads: Template:Verse translation This is interpreted as two personal names: Template:Transliteration [son] of Template:Transliteration.[2] The name Template:Transliteration may mean "bear penis"[3] (compare Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang". "bear" and Irish Script error: No such module "Lang". "penis"), while Template:Transliteration may contain the element brog-, mrog- "country"[4] (compare Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang". "region, country"). Alternatively, the inscription may be interpreted as Template:Transliteration [made this] for Template:Transliteration, with the second name in the dative case.[5]
Grafenstein inscription
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:[1]
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Other readings of the inscription have also been proposed, including: Template:Main other
References
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