Camunic language

Camunic
RegionVal Camonica
EthnicityCamunni
Erafirst millennium BC[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xcc
xcc
Glottologcamu1235

The Camunic language is an extinct language that was spoken in the 1st millennium BC in Val Camonica, a valley in the Central Alps. The language is sparsely attested to an extent that makes any classification attempt uncertain—even the discussion of whether it should be considered a pre–Indo-European or an Indo-European language has remained indecisive.[2] Among several suggestions, it has been hypothesized that Camunic is related to the Raetic language from the Tyrsenian language family,[3][4] or to the Celtic languages.[5]

  1. ^ Camunic at MultiTree on the Linguist List
  2. ^ Angelo Martinotti: Le iscrizioni preromane, in U. Sansoni, S. Gavaldo (editors), Lucus rupestris. Sei millenni d’arte rupestre a Campanine di Cimbergo, "Archivi" vol. 18, Esine 2009, pp. 324–337.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Schumacher2000 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Markey, Thomas (2008). Shared Symbolics, Genre Diffusion, Token Perception and Late Literacy in North-Western Europe. NOWELE.