Mainland Celtic languages
As mainland Celtic languages (or continental Celtic languages ) originally spoken in mainland Europe is part of the Celtic languages referred. All of these languages in antiquity or shortly thereafter died .
Celtic language areas over time or the spread of Celtic peoples and languages:
Area of the Hallstatt culture in the 6th century BC Chr.
Largest Celtic extension, around 275 BC. Chr.
Lusitania (Celtic settlement uncertain)
The "six Celtic Nations ", which had a significant number of speakers of Celtic languages until the early modern period
The current range of Celtic languages
Of these, five mainland Celtic languages are known, all of whose names represent artifacts of the modern age ; they have come down to us in more or less extensive fragments:
- Gallic in France, northern Italy, Switzerland, and possibly southwest Germany
- Galatian in western Turkey
- Lepont table in Northern Italy
- Celtiberian on the Iberian Peninsula
- Norisch in Austria
It is very likely that there were other Celtic languages and dialects on the European continent before and around the turn of the times .
The Breton is not a mainland Celtic language, as it was brought about in the 4th century by emigrants from Südbritannien to northern France.
Web links
Wiktionary: Mainland Celtic - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
