![]() ![]() P-Celtic type languages are more innovative (*kʷ > p) while Q-Celtic type languages are more conservative. They are thought to have spoken Gaulish ( P-Celtic type), Lepontic ( P-Celtic type), Hispano-Celtic ( Celtiberian and Western Hispano-Celtic or Gallaecian) ( Q-Celtic type), Eastern Celtic or Noric (unknown type). Many of the populations from these regions were called Celts by ancient authors. They lived in these many regions forming a large arc stretching across from Iberia in the west to the Balkans and Anatolia in the east. ![]() Iberian Peninsula – Spain and Portugal, in the northern, central and western regions southern Central Europe – upper Danube basin and neighbouring regions, large parts of the middle Danube basin and the inland region of Central Asia Minor or Anatolia. They were most of the population in Gallia, today's France, Switzerland, possibly Belgica – far Northern France, Belgium and far Southern Netherlands, large parts of Hispania, i.e. In the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, Celts inhabited a large part of mainland Western Europe and large parts of Western Southern Europe ( Iberian peninsula), southern Central Europe and some regions of the Balkans and Anatolia. ![]() ![]() Proto-Indo-Europeans ( Proto-Indo-European speakers)Ĭontinental Celts were the Celtic peoples that inhabited mainland Europe.In Classical antiquity, Celts were a large number and a significant part of the population in many regions of Western Europe, Southern Central Europe, the British Isles and parts of the Balkans, in Europe, and also Central Asia Minor or Anatolia.Īncestors Map 2: Indo-European migrations as described in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. This is a list of Celtic tribes, organized in order of the likely ethnolinguistic kinship of the peoples and tribes. ![]()
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