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May 4, 2024 · The Celtic languages ( / ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tik) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. [1] The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, [2] following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described ...
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4 days ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
May 1, 2024 · The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) speakers, and subsequent migrations of people speaking derived Indo-European languages, which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially explaining how these languages came to be spoken across a large area of Eurasia, spanning from the Indian ...
Apr 30, 2024 · by Archaeology News. March 10, 2022. Introduction. The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Beaker culture, is an archaeological phenomenon that emerged during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Western Europe. It is characterized by the presence of distinctive bell-shaped pottery vessels, which gave the culture its name.
There's an empty spot under persian. Man, always the same. Galician does exist, specially if you're counting Catalonian. It shares a unique root with Portuguese (galician-portuguese), distinct from Spanish, before the independence of Portugal.
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5 days ago · Eric P. Hamp in his 2012 Indo-European family tree classified the Phrygian language together with Italo-Celtic as a member of a "Northwest Indo-European" group. In Hamp's view, Northwest Indo-Europeans are likely to have been the first inhabitants of Hallstatt with the Pre-Phrygians moving east and south to Anatolia in the same manner as the ...
A note of caution: Continental Celtic is just used to name the Celtic languages that were spoken on mainland Europe as opposed to the Insular Celtic ones, which are directly attested a long time after that; that means that Continental vs. Insular is not a genetic or descriptive label but mainly a chronological and geographical one.
