Re: Celtic languages?

In a message dated 9/27/2004 2:19:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:

>Galatian - are there any inscriptions? It seems that around 280 BCE a
>group of Galatai made their way from the Balkans into Asia Minor. In 230
>BCE King Attalos of Pergamon settled them among the Phrygians in the area
>of modern Ankara. They appear to have remained a separate group until the
>5th cent. CE. But I do not know how much direct evidence we have about
>their language.
The book I cited before* tells me that known Galatian material "consists
exclusively of glosses recorded by classical writers and onomastic materials."

In spite of this limited evidence, the author says "Galatian tends to share
the developments that are attested in Gaulish."

*_The Celtic Languages_ ed. by Martin J. Ball.

Doug