Noric | |
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Native to | Austria, Slovenia |
Ethnicity | Taurisci |
Era | attested 2nd century AD |
Indo-European
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Old Italic | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nrc |
nrc | |
Glottolog | nori1240 |
The Noric language, or Eastern Celtic, was an unclassified Continental Celtic language. It is attested in only two fragmentary inscriptions from the Roman province of Noricum (one in Grafenstein, Carinthia, Austria, the other in Ptuj, Slovenia). These do not provide enough information to draw conclusions about the language. However, it was probably similar to other Celtic languages near to it, such as Gaulish. No evidence yet shows when it became extinct.