Ancient Languages of the Balkans: Pt. 1

217 Pages·1976·4.554 MB·

by  Radoslav Katičić

TrenidsnL inguistics
State-of-Rtehpeo-rAtrst
edited by
W Winter
University of
Kiel, Germany
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ANCIENT LANGUAGES
OF THE BALKANS
by
RADOSLAV KATICIC
Part one
1976
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© Copyright 1976 in The Netherlands.
Mouton & Co. N.V., Publishers, The Hague.
No part of this book may be translated or reproduced in any form, by print,
photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the
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PREFACE
In a short introductory outline such as the present one it is impos­
sible to handle a complex and delicate subject in any exhaustive
and balanced manner. The presentation will always be ecJectic and
must thus remain the responsibility of the author.
In this survey, the selection of data and of scholarly opinions
that are treated at some length is the result of personal experience
with the field of study. In some way, it is the book the author wishes
he could have had at his disposal when, eleven years ago, he began
the study of the languages of the ancient Balkans. This is the spirit
in which he would like it to be accepted. Another person's presen­
tation would be different. It cannot be otherwise in a field in which
the body of universally shared opinions and received doctrines
is small and the approaches of those concerned with it vary
considerably. More space has been given to the literary sour­
ces than one would expect in such a series; however, for this
subject it was vital to provide the appropriate philological and
historical basis.
The bibliography, too, is selective, and here again a persona] note
could not be avoided. The list includes those works which were
judged to be fundamental in the field and also those which contain
some data or opinions relevant for the course of the main presen­
tation. All authors are quoted in the text and thus connected with
some topics in the survey. Some titles occur only in the bibliography
without reference in the text. They have no special bearing on any
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6 PREFACE
one of the subjects treated there, but are proposed as useful addi­
tional reading.
Finally, I want to express my cordial thanks to Professor W.
Winter, the editor of this series, for his interest in my Balkanic
studies and to all colleagues who have helped me in my work by
sending me their publications. Among them I am most obliged to
G. Alfoldy, M. Budimir, E. <;abej and the State University of
Tirana, I. Duridanov, V. Georgiev, L. A. Gindin, 0. Haas, D. A.
Hester, H. Krahe, W. Merlingen, F. Papazoglu, G. B. Pellegrini,
A. L. Prosdocimi, D. Rendic-Miocevic, M. Suic, J. Untermann
and K. Vlahov. My sincerest thanks are due to them, because
without their help my work would have been much more difficult.
Thanks are also due to the French School of Archaeology in Athens
where I was, summer after summer, given full opportunities of
work in the rich library.
Another debt of gratitude is to the Linguistic Circle of Zagreb
where all the subjects concerned with the linguistic past of the
Balkan met with much interest and aroused fruitful discussions
which helped the author to arrive at clearer ideas about many of the
topics discussed in this book.
Thanks are due to Swantje Koch who spared no efforts to bring
the bibliography up to the high standard of this series, and to
Mate Krizman who prepared the indexes.
Zagreb, January 1971
RADOSLAV KATIC5IC
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface . . .... . . . . ... . ... . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . ............ . . 5
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Pre-Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.1 The Greek historical records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.2 The historical setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.3 The Pre-Greek linguistic stratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2.3.1 Opinions as to the affiliations of the ancient
languages of Asia Minor . 39
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2.3.2 The language indicated by Pre-Greek suffixes
2.3.3 Non-Indo-European substratum words in the
Eastern Mediterranian . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
2.3.4 "Protindogermanisch" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
2.3.5 Pelastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
2.3.6 Pelasgian .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
2.3. 7 Anatolian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
2.3.8 Preserved texts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
2.3.9 Aegean and Mediterranean. .... ... ... . ..... 96
3 The northern border area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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3.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
3.1 Macedonia . . . . . . .... . . ................... . ...... 100
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3.2 Paeonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
3.3 Epirus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
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4. The Thracian complex .. . 128
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4.1 Geographic and historical background . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
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4.2 The language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
5. The Illyrian complex . .. .. .. . . . 154
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5.1 Historical and geographical background . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
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5.2 The language 165
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5.3 Recent studies in Illyrian anthroponymy . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
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5 .4 The origin of Albanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
6. Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
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