Re: Celtic language remnants in Western Turkey

From: CG
Message: 26156
Date: 2003-09-30

> Are there any remnants of the Celtic language in parts of Western
Turkey due
> to the Celtic migration there?

Not that anyone has discovered so far (AFAIK). By most accounts the
Galatians stopped speaking Celtic by the 7th century AD, and would
have been Greek speakers after that - even if some Celtic words
remained in their Greek dialect (just as a few Celtic words remained
in the Latin of Gaul, and still survive in Modern French), the entire
country switched to speaking a Turkic language in the middle ages,
and I really don't know what the chances are of any Celtic words
surviving the second language shift - not very good, I imagine.

- Chris