On the place of Phrygian among the Indo-European languages

@article{ObradorCursach2019OnTP,
  title={On the place of Phrygian among the Indo-European languages},
  author={Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach},
  journal={Journal of Language Relationship},
  year={2019},
  volume={17},
  pages={233 - 245}
}
The aim of this paper is to gather together certain relevant features of Phrygian based on our current knowledge of the language in order to determine its dialectal position inside the Indo-European family. The relatively large number of features shared with Greek is consistent with prior views about the close relation between the two languages, which may have formed a common proto-language. The relations proposed with certain other languages, such as Armenian, are not so strong despite sharing… 
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