Gaulish

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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 (modern France and neighboring areas roughly to the Rhine). In a wider sense, it also comprises varieties of Celtic that were spoken across much of central Europe, parts of Southeastern Europe, and Anatolia ("Galatian"), which are thought to have been closely related. The more divergent Lepontic of Northern Italy has also sometimes been subsumed under Gaulish. Together with Lepontic, Galatian, Celtiberian, and potentially Gallaecian, spoken in the Iberian Peninsula, Gaulish is a member of the geographic group of Continental Celtic languages. The precise linguistic relationships among them, as well as between them and the modern Insular Celtic languages, are uncertain and a matter of ongoing debate because of their sparse attestation and complicated history. Gaulish is found in some 800 (often fragmentary...

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