Re: Celtic languages?

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 11:04 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > FWIW, my encyclopaedia says that the Balkanic and Minor Asiatic Celts
> > probably
> > consisted of a warrior elite of Western or Central European extraction
> > ruling
> > over peoples speaking non-Celtic languages.
>
> _probably_ is, I think, an important word. It is making the assumptions:
> (a) that Galatai = Keltai
> (b) that Celts were essentially a western warror people.
Well, only that these particular Celts, if Celts they were, were a warrior
people. It's easy enough to find modern examples of small elites ruling over
foreign populations while the majority of the elite's ethnic group still lives
as common people back in the homeland.

> There are IMO far too many assumptions made concerning 'Celts' (both
> ancient & modern) and too little actual evidence.
> > Livius.org claims that Celtic languages were spoken on the east bank of
> > the
> > Rhine well into the Christian Era. No details beyond that they used
> > clusters,
> > such as /gb/, ill tolerated by Latin phonology.
>
> Again, one would like to know the _evidence_ used by Livius.org
They're not too good at documenting their sources. FYI, here's an article of
theirs about a suposedly Celtic people from the Rhineland:

http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/cugerni/cugerni.html

                                                       Andreas