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Between 1300 and 800 BC
- It is believed that the Celtic languages comes from a certain language which is at the origin of both the Celtic and Italic languages. They both appeared and developed between 1300 and 800 BC.
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May 14, 2024 · The Canadian Encyclopedia - Celtic Languages (May 14, 2024) Celtic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken throughout much of Western Europe in Roman and pre-Roman times and currently known chiefly in the British Isles and in the Brittany peninsula of northwestern France.
In the first millennium BC, several (other) non-Italic languages were spoken in the peninsula, including members of other branches of Indo-European (such as Celtic and Greek) as well as at least one non-Indo-European one, Etruscan.
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]
As Watkins (1966) puts it, "the community of -ī in Italic and Celtic is attributable to early contact, rather than to an original unity". The assumed period of language contact could then be later and perhaps continue well into the first millennium BC.
Schleicher (1858) was the first to posit an Italo-Celtic node between Proto-Indo-European and Celtic and Italic. 1 But in the 1920s Carl Marstrander and Giacomo Devoto questioned the validity of this subgrouping. 2 Scholarly opinion has varied ever since.
the first group was divided by the migration of the Latin-speak-. ing people into Italy, and Britannic and Goidelic united to form. Celtic. The Sabellic speakers in their turn moved south, and. the Celts spread westwards and eastwards as we know. Only. after their migration into Italy did Sabellic and Latin speakers.
