Graeco-Phrygian

Graeco-Phrygian (ˌɡriːkoʊˈfrɪdʒiən) is a proposed subgroup of the Indo-European language family which comprises the Hellenic and Phrygian languages. Modern consensus views Greek as the closest relative of Phrygian, a position that is supported by Brixhe, Neumann, Matzinger, Woodhouse, Ligorio, Lubotsky, and Obrador-Cursach. Furthermore, out of 36 isoglosses collected by Obrador Cursach, Phrygian shared 34 with Greek, with 22 being exclusive between them. The last 50 years of Phrygian scholarship developed a hypothesis that proposes a proto-Graeco-Phrygian stage out of which Greek and Phrygian originated, and if Phrygian was more sufficiently attested, that stage could perhaps be reconstructed. Evidence The linguist Claude Brixhe points to the following features Greek and Phrygian are known to have in common and in common with no other language:

a certain class of masculine nouns in the nominative singular ending in -s
a certain class of denominal verbs

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a certain class of masculine nouns in the nominative singular ending in -s
a certain class of denominal verbs

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