Protocelts
As Proto Celts members of a before the arrival of the will Celts in Europe by 500 BC existing. Prehistoric population called. This is assigned to the tumulus culture and later to the urn field culture in the Bronze Age .
The non- Indo-European linguistic legacies of the Protocelts can be found in today's names of places and waters , but also in words from the conceptual world of earlier settled life . According to a newer, not generally accepted theory, there was a Europe-wide uniform language (the Vasconic language ), which is originally related to the current Basque language .