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All surviving Celtic languages are in the Insular group, including Breton, which is spoken on continental Europe in Brittany, France. The Continental Celtic languages, although once widely spoken in mainland Europe and in Anatolia, [1] are extinct. Six Insular Celtic languages are extant (in all cases written and spoken) in two distinct groups:
Regional Italian (Italian: italiano regionale, pronounced [itaˈljaːno redʒoˈnaːle]) is any regional [note 1] variety of the Italian language.. Such vernacular varieties and standard Italian exist along a sociolect continuum, and are not to be confused with the local non-immigrant languages of Italy [note 2] that predate the national tongue or any regional variety thereof.
A 2021 archeogenetic analysis of Etruscan individuals, who lived between 800 BC and 1 BC, concluded that the Etruscans were autochthonous and genetically similar to the Early Iron Age Latins, and that the Etruscan language, and therefore the other languages of the Tyrrhenian family, may be a surviving language of the ones that were widespread ...
Celtic languages share common features with Italic languages that are not found in other branches of Indo-European, suggesting the possibility of an earlier Italo-Celtic linguistic unity. Proto-Celtic is currently being reconstructed through the comparative method by relying on later Celtic languages.
Map of early Italic and surrounding languages. Map c. 450 BC View from the general vicinity of Falerii to Monte Soratte on the southern border. The Falisci [a] were an Italic tribe who lived in what is now northern Lazio, on the Etruscan side of the Tiber River. [1] They spoke an Italic language, Faliscan, closely related to Latin.
The Celtic origin of the French substratum is certain, as the Celtic languages are abundantly documented, whereas the Dacian origin of Romanian words is in most cases speculative. It is also argued that the Dacian language may form the substratum of Common Romanian , which developed from the Vulgar Latin spoken in the Balkans north of the ...
In Basque, the name of the language is officially euskara (alongside various dialect forms).. In French, the language is normally called basque, though euskara has become common in recent times.
