The Relationship Between Language and History

Celtic languages are very likely the result of an earlier migration of Indo-European speakers westwards across mainland Europe. An important migration of peoples occurred during the first millennium CE when Germanic speakers travelled and settled the British Isles. It is more common to call these people Indo-Iranians but if the Kurgen hypothesis is correct they would have migrated southwards from the Eurasian steppe. The Indus Valley branch of Indo-Irania would have been responsible for the first emergence of Sanskrit which became the language of the Vedas. During our ancient Egyptian episodes we spoke of an Indo-European migration into Iranian lands and this is thought to be a split of that same Indo-Iran