pictish

I would imagine the Picts in Srath Earn would have a different dialect to those in the Moray Firth those are two known 'pictish' strongholds when cross-referencing evidence.

Pictish female names Carla 2010

However, I do think both regions, and other 'pictish' regions would start from a Brythonic base when it comes to the basic language elements and names - and the concepts represented in names and stonework would have had an even wider geographical spread, right across the non-irish areas of what became 'alba'.

Pictish female names Carla 2010

Even if an ogham rosetta could be discovered, they would still have to try and translate the text back into oral pictish, difficult unless it is accepted that the way to understand it is via p-celtic patterns.

Pictish female names Carla 2010

I wish I could understand how spoken pictish might change the inflection of a word to make it feminine, like changing 'ach' to 'eag' in Irish, taking a generic word and giving it a gender, like a more subtle version of the french use of 'la' and 'le'.

Pictish female names Carla 2010

They do not speak the language of aspiration, self reliance and small state decentralised modernity so popular south of the cold flint strewn pictish moors.

Archive 2007-12-16 Newmania 2007

What was once a family squabble between the pictish hoard and the fair Southern “Angels” has deepened into a real political debate which can only go in one direction,.

Archive 2007-01-14 Newmania 2007

They do not speak the language of aspiration, self reliance and small state decentralised modernity so popular south of the cold flint strewn pictish moors.

Its Only Words Newmania 2007

I have been fixated with the pictish hoard and their sheep stealing ways for ages now.

Scottish End Game Newmania 2007

What was once a family squabble between the pictish hoard and the fair Southern “Angels” has deepened into a real political debate which can only go in one direction,.

All Aboard The Lying scotsman Newmania 2007

I prefer to leave the tit for tat mud slinging to the non-footballing, oil greedy, racist, Barnett Formula teat sucking, pictish horde sulking in their midge infested bogs.

A Picture of Mel (plus bits) Newmania 2006