page_title: Continental Celtic languages
hierarchical_section_title: Continental Celtic languages
caption_attribution_description: English: rough sketch of the expansion of Celts in Iron Age Europe. 1: early Iron Age core region (Hallstatt, early La Tène (which is it?) 2: assumed Celtic expansion by the 4th century BC L: La Tène site H: Hallstatt site I: Iberia B: British Isles G: Galatia, settled in the 3rd century BC (after 279 BC) Français&#160;: carte de l'expansion celte dessinée par F5ZV 17 jul 2004 à 00:14 (CEST), licence GFDL, F5ZV juillet 2004
context_page_description: The Continental Celtic languages is the now-extinct branch of the Celtic languages that were spoken on the continent of Europe, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles, Ireland, and Brittany. Continental Celtic is a geographic, not a linguistic, grouping of the ancient Celtic languages. The Continental Celtic languages were spoken by the people known to Roman and Greek writers as Keltoi, Celtae, Galli and Galatae. These languages were spoken in an arc stretching across from Iberia in the west to the Balkans and Anatolia in the east.
  Even though Breton is spoken in continental Europe, and has been since at least the 6th century AD, it is not considered one of the Continental Celtic languages as it is a Brittonic language closely related to Cornish and Welsh. Whilst it has been suggested that there is a Gaulish substratum in the Vannetais dialect the historical and linguistic evidence shows otherwise.
context_section_description: The Continental Celtic languages is the now-extinct branch of the Celtic languages that were spoken on the continent of Europe, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles, Ireland, and Brittany. Continental Celtic is a geographic, not a linguistic, grouping of the ancient Celtic languages. The Continental Celtic languages were spoken by the people known to Roman and Greek writers as Keltoi, Celtae, Galli and Galatae. These languages were spoken in an arc stretching across from Iberia in the west to the Balkans and Anatolia in the east.
  Even though Breton is spoken in continental Europe, and has been since at least the 6th century AD, it is not considered one of the Continental Celtic languages as it is a Brittonic language closely related to Cornish and Welsh. Whilst it has been suggested that there is a Gaulish substratum in the Vannetais dialect (Galliou and Jones 1991) the historical and linguistic evidence shows otherwise.
caption: Celtic languages during the Iron Age and classical Antiquity. 1: early Iron Age core region (Hallstatt -H-, early La Tène -L-) 2: assumed Celtic expansion by the 4th century BC L: La Tène site H: Hallstatt site I: Iberia B: British Isles G: Galatia, settled in the 3rd century BC (after 279 BC)
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