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**drexigordiche** · 06-25-2012, 03:54 AM

According to Andrew Garrett there were no Proto-Celts. Celtic dialects aroused from local Sprachbund phenomena:

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~garrett/BLS1999.pdf

Ethnogenesis of Celts and Germanics is a very interesting subject now. It seems that both those ethnicities originated in Atlantic Europe and have nothing to do with Eastern Europe.

But someone still had to bring Indo-European languages for them to develop from, unless he is suggesting that all Indo-European languages are actually a sprachbund?

06-25-2012, 03:54 AM	#20
drexigordiche Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 472 Senior Member	According to Andrew Garrett there were no Proto-Celts. Celtic dialects aroused from local Sprachbund phenomena: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~garrett/BLS1999.pdf Ethnogenesis of Celts and Germanics is a very interesting subject now. It seems that both those ethnicities originated in Atlantic Europe and have nothing to do with Eastern Europe. But someone still had to bring Indo-European languages for them to develop from, unless he is suggesting that all Indo-European languages are actually a sprachbund?
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