The Hallstatt Culture, the Celts, and the Rise of the European Iron Age
Tides of History
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The Evolution of Celtic Languages in Europe
People tend to adopt languages that they perceive as having a high status. Celtic thus seeped outward from these halchdot elites into the fabric of local and regional groups across Europe, he says. Over time, non-native speakers of Celtic would have picked up the tongue in order to communicate with trade partners,. eventually abandoning their older languages over the course of generations.
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