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'''Pictish''' is the term used for the language that was spoken in what is now northern Scotland before the Scots immigrated in the 5th century.  There is a small number of unintelligible Ogham inscriptions from the area; otherwise, the language is known only from geographical and personal names.
|colspan="2" bgcolor="#FF6666" align="center" |'''Pictish'''
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|valign="top"|Spoken in:
||Scotland
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|valign="top"|Timeline/Universe:
||[[League of Lost Languages]]
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|valign="top"|Total speakers:
||ca. 500
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|valign="top"|Genealogical classification:
||[[Coric]]<br>
&nbsp;'''Pictish'''
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|valign="top"|Basic word order:
||VSO
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|valign="top"|Morphological type:
||fusional
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|valign="top"|Morphosyntactic alignment:
||ergative
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|colspan="2" bgcolor="#FF6666" align="center" |'''Created by:'''
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||[[User:WeepingElf|Jörg Rhiemeier]]||2006-
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'''Pictish''' is the only surviving [[Coric]] language; it is spoken by a few extended families in the eastern Scottish highlands.
It has long been held that the language was non-Indo-European, but today, most scholars assume that it was Celtic.
 
[[Category:Coric]]

Revision as of 11:41, 17 September 2010

Pictish is the term used for the language that was spoken in what is now northern Scotland before the Scots immigrated in the 5th century. There is a small number of unintelligible Ogham inscriptions from the area; otherwise, the language is known only from geographical and personal names.

It has long been held that the language was non-Indo-European, but today, most scholars assume that it was Celtic.

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