Re: Germanic and Celtic (was Re: Verb-second ... verb-penultimate languages?)

Elliott Lash wrote:

>I dont believe this is the case. The earliest Celtic
>languages, Gaulish, Celtiberian, Lepontic(?), all have
>word orders, morphology, phonology and some lexicon
>more similar to Italic languages than Germanic.
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Is it beyond reasonable doubt that they're closer related to the Insular
Celtic languages than Germanic is, though?