Archaeologists closer to decliphering Pictish language

[haukehaien]

It's a bit closer to deciphering their script, (insofar as they may have identified the existance of a script), but there's still an essentially impassable gulf before we can read it. The problem is, (even if they're correct and they've identified the script) that we have little to no data about the language (we may as well call it Pictish) which the Picts spoke. Most linguists believe that it was a Celtic language and probably part of the southern Brythonic group, but we don't know for sure. We don't even know what they called themselves.

The quote from Paul Bouissac at the end of the article is exactly correct: "'We will have to wait for the discovery of what would be the Pictish equivalent of the Rosetta Stone...' he said. 'This may or may not ever happen.'"

Oh, and Lachalan: emdy wha's nae a reet schemebo canna tak up the Weegie, byraway.