The Continental Celtic languages are the now-extinct group of 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 mostly a geographic rather than strictly linguistic grouping of the ancient Celtic languages.
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Proto-Language StatusContinental Celtic is an entirely extinct grouping of the ancient Celtic languages (Gaulish, Hispano-Celtic, Lepontic, Noric and Galatian) defined mainly by geography rather than strict linguistic descent. It has no separately reconstructed proto-language of its own. 1 Continental Celtic is defined geographically rather than by a shared reconstructed proto-language of its own; its status as a genetic clade, as opposed to the competing Insular Celtic classification, is debated among specialists. RegionContinental Europe, Anatolia 1 Speaker Count Continental Celtic
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Continental Celtic groups the extinct Celtic languages of mainland Europe (Gaulish, Celtiberian, Lepontic), as distinct from the surviving Insular Celtic languages.
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Continental Europe, Anatolia
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Continental Celtic is mostly a geographic, rather than strictly linguistic, grouping of the ancient Celtic languages.
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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
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