Gaulish

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Gaulish was an ancient Celtic language once spoken in much of Western and Central Europe, particularly in the region corresponding to modern-day France and surrounding areas.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gaulish canonical 7
Gaulish language 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (67)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Celtic language
extinct language
approximateEndDate around 6th century CE
attestedIn glosses
inscriptions
personal names
place names
causeOfExtinction Romanization
language shift to Latin
closelyRelatedTo Brythonic languages
Celtiberian
Lepontic
linked to: Lepontic language
culturalAssociation Celtic Gaul
linked to: Gaul

La Tène culture
grammaticalFeature case system
grammatical gender
inflected nouns
verb conjugation
hasAlternativeName Gallic
Gaulish language
linked to: Gaulish
hasAncestor Proto-Celtic
Proto-Indo-European
influenced Franco-Provençal
French
Gallo-Romance
Occitan
ISO639-3 xcg
languageContactWith Etruscan
linked to: Etruscan language

Gallo-Romance
Germanic languages
Greek
linked to: Greeks

Latin
languageFamily Celtic
linked to: Celtic languages
lexicalInfluenceOn French common vocabulary
French hydronyms
French toponyms
partOf Indo-European languages
phonologicalFeature loss of Proto-Indo-European *p in many positions
presence of /w/ and /gw/ sounds
region Central Europe
Gaul
Western Europe
modern-day France
parts of Belgium
parts of Germany
parts of Northern Italy
parts of Switzerland
parts of the Czech Republic
replacedBy Gallo-Romance languages
Vulgar Latin
scriptType alphabetic
spokenBy Gauls
linked to: Gaul
studiedInDiscipline Celtic studies
epigraphy
historical linguistics
subfamilyOf Continental Celtic
Insular vs Continental Celtic branch: Continental
timePeriod Iron Age
Roman period
writingMaterial ceramic inscriptions
curse tablets
metal tablets
stone inscriptions
writingSystem Greek alphabet
Latin alphabet
Lepontic alphabet
Old Italic scripts
linked to: Old Italic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Celtic ancestorOf Gaulish
Arausio languageContext Gaulish
subject linked to: Celtic settlement Arausio
Gaul primaryAncientLanguage Gaulish
Gaulish hasAlternativeName Gaulish language
linked to: Gaulish
Gallo-Romance languages influencedBy Gaulish language
linked to: Gaulish
Galli nativeLanguage Gaulish language
linked to: Gaulish
Cisalpine Gaul language Gaulish
Galatian language hasAncestor Gaulish language
linked to: Gaulish
Galatian language hasLexicalSimilarityWith Gaulish language
linked to: Gaulish
Gallo-Roman languageUsed Gaulish