Paleo-Sardinian language

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Paleo-Sardinian
Nuragic
Region
Sardinians
Extinctc. 2nd century AD[citation needed]
Language codes
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Paleo-Sardinian, also known as Proto-Sardinian or Nuragic, is an

toponyms, which appear to preserve grammatical suffixes, and a number of words in the modern Sardinian language
.

Monotower Nuraghe

Pre-Indo-European hypothesis

The Swiss linguist Johannes Hubschmid proposed six linguistic layers in prehistoric Sardinia.[1]

There is toponymic evidence suggesting that the Paleo-Sardinian language may have had connection to the reconstructed

Ancient Ligurian were also noted by Emidio De Felice.[5] According to Max Leopold Wagner
:

So eg. sakkáyu, -a, sakkaggu, -a is in Sardinian a lamb or a goat of a year or a year and a half; brings to mind the Aragonese segalo, Catalan sugali, Béarnese sigàlo «goat of the same age», which my colleague Rohlfs combined with the Basque seguila «chèvre d'un an» which seems to be derived from the Basque seliail, segai! «svelte», safaildu «décharner, maigrir». Of course, not everything is equally certain, and the investigation must be continued and expanded. Naturally I am far from wanting to identify Sardinians and Basques, Sardinians and Iberians, I believe that one must always bear in mind that other influences may also have manifested themselves, long-standing Mediterranean influences, Ligurian and perhaps even Alpine influences. Certain coincidences between Sardinian and Albanian are also notable"

— Max Leopold Wagner, Osservazioni sui sostrati etnico-linguistici sardi, 1933[6]

Bertoldi and Terracini[

Iberia and Gascony (Wagner, Rohlfs, Blasco Ferrer, Hubschmid), and to southern Italy
(Rohlfs).

The non-Latin suffixes -ài, -éi, -òi, -ùi survive in modern place names based on Latin roots. Terracini sees connections to

Sulcitani
, has also been identified as Paleo-Sardinian.

Etruscan–Nuragic connection

The linguist M. Pittau[7] argues that the Paleo-Sardinian ("Sardian") language and the Etruscan language were closely linked, as he argues that they were both emanations of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. According to Pittau, the "Nuragics" were a population of Lydian origin who imported their Indo-European language to the island, pushing out the Pre-Indo-European languages spoken by the Pre-Nuragic peoples.

Some examples of Nuragic names of Indo-European origin might be:[8]

Other hypothesis

Nuragic populations, ancient tribes of Sardinia, speakers of Paleo-Sardinian language or languages are shown in yellow and red.

Archeologist Giovanni Ugas suggested that the three main Nuragic populations (Balares, Corsi and Ilienses) may have had separate origins and so may have spoken different languages:

  • the
    Beaker culture.[9][10]
  • The Corsi from the north-east might have possibly been of Ligurian origin.
  • The Iolaei/Ilienses, who inhabited the southern plains and today's Barbagia, likely would have spoken a pre-Indo-European language, possibly similar to Minoan and other languages of that area.[11]

The common subdivision of modern Sardinian into the three dialects of

Sarrabus region.[13]

Tiscali

According to Guido Borghi, researcher of

Proto-Indo-European *Dʱĭhₓ-s-kə̥̥̆ₐ-lĭhₐ with the meaning of "the little (mountain) in the set of the territories which are in plain sight".[14]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Heinz Jürgen Wolf 1998, p. 20.
  2. ^ Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, ed. 2010. Paleosardo: Le radici linguistiche della Sardegna neolitica (Paleosardo: The Linguistic Roots of Neolithic Sardinian). De Gruyter Mouton
  3. ^ Blasco-Ferrer 2010, p. 161, 162.
  4. ^ Blasco-Ferrer 2010, p. 152, 161, 162.
  5. ^ Argaiz, Mary Carmen Iribarren (1997). "Mary Carmen Iribarren Argaiz, Los vocablos en-rr-de la lengua sarda: Conexiones con la península ibérica". Fontes Linguae Vasconum: Studia et Documenta (in Spanish). 29 (76): 335–354. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Max Leopold Wagner, Osservazioni sui sostrati etnico-linguistici sardi" (in Italian). Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  7. ^ Pittau, La lingua sardiana o dei protosardi, Cagliari 2001.
  8. ^ Massimo Pittau, Appellativi nuragici di matrice indoeuropea
  9. ^ Ugas 2005, p. 18.
  10. ^ Ugas 2005, p. 29.
  11. ^ Ugas 2005, p. 255.
  12. ^ Ugas 2005, p. 253.
  13. ^ Ugas 2005, p. 254.
  14. ^ Man Qing Ong, Perono Cacciafoco 2022, p. 14.

References

  • Alberto G. Areddu, Le origini albanesi della civiltà in Sardegna, Naples, Grafica Elettronica, 2007.
  • Blasco-Ferrer, Eduardo (2010). Paleosardo: Le radici linguistiche della Sardegna neolitica [Paleosardo: The Linguistic Roots of Neolithic Sardinian] (in Italian). De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Johannes Hubschmid, Sardische Studien, Bern, 1953.
  • Massimo Pittau. La lingua sardiana o dei Protosardi, Cagliari: Ettore Gasperini, 2001.
  • Giulio Paulis, I nomi di luogo in Sardegna, Sassari, 1987.
  • Giulio Paulis. “Il paleosardo: retrospettive e prospettive”, Aion: Annali del Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico — Sezione linguistica 30, no. 4 (2010): 11-61.
  • Ugas, Giovanni (2005). L'Alba dei Nuraghi. Cagliari: Fabula editrice.
    OCLC 462763778
    .
  • Heinz Jürgen Wolf (1998), Toponomastica Barbaricina, Nuoro

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