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proto-Celtic
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Proto-Celtic language
The
Proto-Celtic language
, also called
Common Celtic
, is the
reconstructed
ancestor language of all the known
Celtic languages
. Its
lexis
can be confidently reconstructed on the basis of the
comparative method
of
historical linguistics
. Proto-Celtic is a branch of the Western
Indo-European languages
, along with the other branches
Italic
,
Germanic
,
Hellenic
,
Indo-Iranian
,
Albanian
and
Balto-Slavic
. The exact relationships between these branches are under discussion. The earliest archaeological culture that may justifiably be considered as Proto-Celtic is the Late Bronze Age
Urnfield culture
of
Central Europe
from the last quarter of the second millennium BC. By the Iron Age
Hallstatt culture
of around 800 BC, these people had become fully Celtic.
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