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Languages of the World in 1200 BC
Tides of History
Indo European Languages
There is absolutely no reason to think that our meagre and patche early writtain evidence encompasses all the indo european varieties or branches that were once spoken. I think it's quite likely that there were people in britain and ireland around 12 hundred b c, speaking an into european language That was later replaced by the celtic varieties we know. Things are even less clear in northern europe. Our written evidence from the region is much, much later than in iberia and italy. And proto germanic, from which the north west and east branches are descended, was like is, a much later phenomenon.
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