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      • The question of the relationship of Common Celtic to the other Indo-European languages remains open. For some time, it was held that Celtic stood in an especially close relation to the Italic branch; some scholars even spoke of a period when an Italo-Celtic “nation” existed, toward the end of the 2nd millennium bc.
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      Celtic languages - Ancient Contacts, Relationships | Britannica

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Italo-CelticItalo-Celtic - Wikipedia

    In historical linguistics, Italo-Celtic is a hypothetical grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo-European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others. There is controversy about the causes of these similarities.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Italic_peoplesItalic peoples - Wikipedia

    The origin of a hypothetical ancestral "Italo-Celtic" people is to be found in today's eastern Hungary, settled around 3100 BC by the Yamnaya culture. This hypothesis is to some extent supported by the observation that Italic shares a large number of isoglosses and lexical terms with Celtic and Germanic , some of which are more likely to be ...

  5. www.britannica.com › topic › Celtic-languagesCeltic languages - Ancient Contacts, Relationships | Britannica

    Relationships and ancient contacts of Celtic. The question of the relationship of Common Celtic to the other Indo-European languages remains open. For some time, it was held that Celtic stood in an especially close relation to the Italic branch; some scholars even spoke of a period when an Italo-Celtic “nation” existed, toward the end of ...

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Celtic_languagesCeltic languages - Wikipedia

    Within the Indo-European family, the Celtic languages have sometimes been placed with the Italic languages in a common Italo-Celtic subfamily. This hypothesis fell somewhat out of favour after reexamination by American linguist Calvert Watkins in 1966. [62]

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  8. www.cambridge.org › core › booksItalo-Celtic (Chapter 7) - The Indo-European Language Family

    Summary. This chapter discusses the evidence for the existence of an intermediate subgroup Proto-Italo-Celtic, the parent of Proto-Italic and Proto-Celtic. The chapter also examines the connections between Italic and Celtic and the other northwest Indo-European subgroups.

  9. european-origins.com › 2020/08/10 › origin-ancient-celtsThe Origins of The Ancient Celts | European Origins

    Aug 10, 2020 · Another theory put forward sees Celtic as but a branch of Italic, originating in northern Italy and spreading from there. Both theories are still debated and no conclusion on the exact origin of the Celtic languages and its relation to Italic has been drawn yet.

  10. european-origins.com › 2019/11/12 › italic-peoplesThe Ancient Italic Peoples | European Origins

    Nov 12, 2019 · An interesting theory proposes that Ventian may be the ‘missing link’ between Italic and Celtic and strengthens the hypothesis of a shared ‘Italo-Celtic’ ancestor to both language subgroups. The Greeks, Messapians and Apulians

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