Strange Similarities Between Celtic & Semitic Languages!

[Kamal900]

[Ouistreham]

This is true, Celtic languages share some grammatical similarities with Hamito-Semitic.
Most likely explanation is that a large part of pre-IE Europe used to speak languages somewhat related to North-African Berberic before they were wiped out by Indo-European cultures. In other words, there used to be a continuum from the Middle East to the Atlantic
I suppose that the Celtic group, the earliest IE one to extend westwards, was influenced by the syntaxical structures of Hamito-Semitic. Then came the highly innovative Italic, Greek, Germanic, and (less so) Slavic groups, bringing along new grammatical features that gave birth to so-called "Standard Average European" and put an end to the previously existing continuum.
A legacy of the ancient situation is still to be seen in the surviving Celtic languages.

[Kamal900]

This is true, Celtic languages share some grammatical similarities with Hamito-Semitic.
Most likely explanation is that a large part of pre-IE Europe used to speak languages somewhat related to North-African Berberic before they were wiped out by Indo-European cultures. In other words, there used to be a continuum from the Middle East to the Atlantic
I suppose that the Celtic group, the earliest IE one to extend westwards, was influenced by the syntaxical structures of Hamito-Semitic. Then came the highly innovative Italic, Greek, Germanic, and (less so) Slavic groups, bringing along new grammatical features that gave birth to so-called "Standard Average European" and put an end to the previously existing continuum.
A legacy of the ancient situation is still to be seen in the surviving Celtic languages.

Which is sad on what happened to the Celts of Europe since they've been pretty much got assimilated by these groups except for the insular Celts.

[21993]

Very interesting. It awakened up a curiosity on me whether ENF spoke a language closer to Semitic languages or not. Maybe, IE people couldn't change the languages of Pre-Celtic people as much as they changed the other parts of Indo-European lands.

[Kamal900]

Very interesting. It awakened up a curiosity on me whether ENF spoke a language closer to Semitic languages or not. Maybe, IE people couldn't change the languages of Pre-Celtic people as much as they changed the other parts of Indo-European lands.

Well, the afro-asiatic language family is much older than Indo-European language family so it's possible.

[TheOldNorth]

These similarities are only the case in modern Celtic languages. Old Brittonic, the oldest ancestor of welsh that can be distinguished from Irish and Gaulish, was more like Latin grammar as was Gaulish. I’d say that this is a case of linguistic convergent evolution combined with the sprachbund affect that makes languages in a close proximity similar.

[Kraftwerk]

Vasconic languages too should be similar to Semitic ones in this case. I really wonder culture, genetics, phenotypes of those extinct people.

[TheOldNorth]

Vasconic languages too should be similar to Semitic ones in this case. I really wonder culture, genetics, phenotypes of those extinct people.

Would be interesting, they were probably something between baskid and gracile med, considering most of their ancestors where Anatolian EEF, also it’s likely they worshiped a mother goddess that was adopted by the celts as Danu in Irish or Don in welsh

[Aldaris]

Vasconic languages too should be similar to Semitic ones in this case. I really wonder culture, genetics, phenotypes of those extinct people.

Ehm?

[Kraftwerk]

Ehm?

Haha mostly extinct then. I'm sure Southwestern France has their gene pool though.