Camunic language

The Camunic language is an extinct language that was spoken in the 1st millennium BC in the Valcamonica and the Valtellina in Northern Italy, both of the Central Alps, and thought to be a pre–Indo-European language.[6]

Camunic
Native tothe south side of the Central Alps (Valcamonica, Valtellina), Italy
RegionItalian Peninsula
EthnicityCamunni
Erafirst millennium BC[1]
uncertain, related to Raetic, perhaps Tyrsenian[2][3]; or Celtic[4]
    Language codes
    ISO 639-3xcc
    xcc
    Glottologcamu1235[5]

    Language
    Alphabet of Sondrio

    The extant corpus is carved on rock, similar to the rock carvings of Valcamonica. There are at least 170 known inscriptions, the majority of which are only a few words long. The writing system used is a variant of the north-Etruscan alphabet, known as the Camunian alphabet or alphabet of Sondrio. Longer inscriptions show that Camunic writing used boustrophedon.

    Its name derives from the people of the Camunni, who lived during the Iron Age in Valcamonica and were the creators of many of the stone carvings in the area. Abecedariums found in Nadro and Piancogno have been dated to between 500 BC and 50 AD.

    The amount of material is insufficient to fully decipher the language. Some scholars think it may be related to Raetic and to Etruscan.[2][7]

    Transliteration
    Gliph Tibiletti Bruno 1992[8] Zavaroni 2004[9] Martinotti 2009[10]
    - A -
    Αα A A
    Αα A -
    Ββ B B (V?)
    Ββ B B (V?)
    Δδ - D
    h D (?) -
    Εε E E
    Εε E E
    Εε E E
    Ϝϝ V -
    Γγ G K (G?)
    Γγ G -
    h H J (ii/h/η?)
    - H -
    Ιι I I
    Ιι I I
    - K K (G?)
    Λλ L L
    Λλ L L
    Μμ M M
    Μμ M M
    Νν N N
    Νν N N
    Ϙϙ O Φ (Q?)
    - P -
    Ππ P P
    Ρρ R R
    Ρρ R R
    Ξξ S χ
    Σσς S S
    Σσς S S
    Χχ T T
    Ττ T T
    - T I
    Ψψ Θθ -
    - Θθ Θθ
    - TS - Ϸϸ -
    Φφ TS - Ϸϸ χ
    Υυ U - W U
    - U - W U
    Ζζ Z χ
    Ζζ Z χ

    See also

    References
    1. Camunic at MultiTree on the Linguist List
    2. "Camunic : Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe : Blackwell Reference Online". Blackwellreference.com. Retrieved 2018-05-26.
    3. M. G. Tibiletti Bruno. 1978. Camuno, retico e pararetico, in Lingue e dialetti dell'Italia antica ('Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica', 6), a cura di A. L. Prosdocimi, Roma, pp. 209–255
    4. Markey, Thomas (2008). Shared Symbolics, Genre Diffusion, Token Perception and Late Literacy in North-Western Europe. NOWELE.
    5. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Camunic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
    6. Simona Marchesini, Le lingue frammentarie dell'Italia antica, Hoepli, Milano 2009, p. 60. (Italian)
    7. M. G. Tibiletti Bruno. 1978. Camuno, retico e pararetico, in Lingue e dialetti dell'Italia antica ('Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica', 6), a cura di A. L. Prosdocimi, Roma, pp. 209–255. (Italian)
    8. Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, Gli alfabetari, Quaderni camuni n° 60, 1992, p. 307. (Italian)
    9. Adolfo Zavaroni, Iscrizioni camune Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, 2004. (Italian)
    10. Angelo Martinotti, Le iscrizioni preromane in Lucus rupestris, 2009, p. 325. (Italian)

    Bibliography
    • Mancini, Alberto. 1980. "Le iscrizioni della Valcamonica" in Studi Urbinati di storia, filosofia e letteratura. Supplemento linguistico 2, pp. 75–166.
    • Mancini, Alberto. 1991. "Iscrizioni retiche e iscrizioni camune. Due ambiti a confronto" in Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze 2, pp. 77–93.
    • Marchesini, Simona. 2011. "Alla ricerca del modello perduto. Sulla genesi dell’alfabeto camuno", Palaeohispanica 11, pp. 155-171
    • Markey, Thomas L. 2008. "Shared symbolics, genre difussion, token perceptions and late literacy in North-western Europe" in NOWELE 54/55, pp. 5–62.
    • Morandi, Alessandro. 2004. Epigrafia e lingua dei Celti d'Italia, vol. II. Celti d’Italia, ed. by Paola Piana Agostinetti (Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica, 12), Roma 2004
    • Prosdocimi, Aldo Luigi. 1965. "Per un'edizione delle iscrizioni della Valcamonica", in Studi Etruschi 33, pp. 574–599.
    • Schumacher, Stefan. 2007. "Val Camonica, Inschriften" in Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde. Band 35: Speckstein bis Zwiebel. Ed. Heinrich Beck et al., Berlin – New York, pp. 334–337.
    • Tibiletti Bruno, Maria Grazia. 1978. "Camuno, retico e pararetico", in Lingue e dialetti dell'Italia antica ('Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica', 6), ed. by A. L. Prosdocimi, Roma 1978, pp. 209–255.
    • Tibiletti Bruno, Maria Grazia. 1990. "Nuove iscrizioni camune" in Quaderni camuni 49-50, pp. 29–171.
    • Tibiletti Bruno, Maria Grazia. 1992. "Gli alfabetari" in Quaderni camuni 60, pp. 309–380.
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