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If their language was not Celtic it may have been Para-Celtic like Ligurian (i.e. an Indo-European language branch not Celtic but more closely related to Celtic). Carpetani – Central Iberian meseta (Spain), in the geographical centre of the Iberian Peninsula , in a large part of today's Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid regions.
Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire.In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
The third plaque is the longest text discovered in any ancient Celtic language. However, this plaque is inscribed in Latin script. [45] Celtic is divided into various branches: Lepontic, the oldest attested Celtic language (from the 6th century BC). [46] Anciently spoken in Switzerland and in Northern-Central Italy.
The Gauls (Latin: Galli; Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD). Their homeland was known as Gaul (Gallia). They spoke Gaulish, a continental Celtic language.
A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of the Celtic ethnicities: Celtae, Belgae and Aquitani. Expansion of the Celtic culture in the 3rd century BC. The Druids were not the only political force in Gaul, however, and the early political system was complex, if ultimately fatal to the society as a whole.
Agrippa made the divisions on what he perceived to be distinctions in language, race and community – Gallia Belgica was meant to be a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples. [8] The capital of this territory was Reims, according to the geographer Strabo, though later the capital moved to modern-day Trier. The date of this move is uncertain.
The Continental Celtic languages are the now-extinct group of the Celtic languages that were spoken on the continent of Europe and in central Anatolia, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles and Brittany. Continental Celtic is a geographic, rather than linguistic, grouping of the ancient Celtic languages.
A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of the Celtic tribes. Gold coins of the Parisii, 1st century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). Coin of the Parisii: obverse with horse, 1st century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). Coins of the Parisii (Metropolitan Museum of Art).