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There is no proof either way. There is some evidence one way or the other. And some features traditionally assumed to support the Italo-Celtic hypothesis turned out to be unrelated innovations in both branches (and sometimes restricted to just one sub-branch; like the -f- future in Irish and -b- future in Latin).
The Celtiberian Peñalba de Villastar rock inscription [1] says "...TO LVGVEI ARAIANOM..." meaning "...for noble Lug..." [2] Votive inscription to the Lugoves in Gallaecia: LUCOUBU ARQUIEN(obu) SILONIUS SILO EX VOTO cf.
(3) What do we make of the striking matches, especially in the religious and legal lexicon, shared by Italo-Celtic and Indo-Iranian? That Proto-Italo-Celtic was the next group to branch off after Proto-Tocharian has been supported by some computational phylogenies of Indo-European (see Figure 7.1) but not others.
The ancient Indo-European migrations and widespread dissemination of Indo-European culture throughout Eurasia, including that of the Proto-Indo-Europeans themselves, and that of their daughter cultures including the Indo-Aryans, Iranian peoples, Celts, Greeks, Romans, Germanic peoples, and Slavs, led to these peoples' branches of the language ...
Hubert added that its standing had not been assisted by an association with another of Jullian's hypotheses, that there had also been something akin to an Italo-Celtic "unified empire".) [11] The Ligurian–Celtic question is also discussed by Guy Barruol in his 1969 paper "The Pre-Roman Peoples of South-east Gaul: Study of Historical Geography ...
The Phrygian language (/ ˈ f r ɪ dʒ i ə n / ⓘ) was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, spoken in Anatolia (modern Turkey), during classical antiquity (c. 8th century BCE to 5th century CE).
It deals with linguistic varieties of "fragmentary attestation " from two strands of Celtic peoples: 1) the oldest, perhaps already settled in the Bronze Age, the ancestors of the Celts of Golasecca culture, who spoke a language (the so-called Lepontic language) which is more archaic, more conservative Gaulish language; 2) groups of Gauls that penetrated in Italy in the fourth century BC (and ...
