The Hallstatt Culture, the Celts, and the Rise of the European Iron Age
Tides of History
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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