Re: Celtic in Southern Iberia

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 67955
Date: 2011-08-03

Thanks for sharing this with us.


From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Celtic in Southern Iberia

 
W dniu 2011-08-01 22:58, Rick McCallister pisze:

> I've never known Tartessian to be seriously considered a Celtic language.
>
> -Michael
>
> There are those who claim it is BUT others believe that the Celts moved
> in c. 400BCE (a very rough date) when Tartessos was falling apart and
> picked up the pieces. Some try to link Tartessian to Anatolian. I'm
> neutral on all this but I do wonder why the Celts would use two
> completely different home-grown alphabets.

John T. Koch is certainly a very serious Cetlologist:

http://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/29/54/26koch.pdf

Piotr