In historical linguistics, Italo-Celtic is a hypothetical grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo-European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others. There is controversy about the causes of these similarities. They are usually considered to be innovations, likely to have developed after the breakup of the Proto-Indo-European language.

The Celtiberians were a group of Celts and Celticized peoples inhabiting an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries BC. They were explicitly mentioned as being Celts by several classic authors (e.g. Strabo ).

Celtiberian or Northeastern Hispano-Celtic is an extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by the Celtiberians in an area of the Iberian Peninsula between the headwaters of the Douro, Tagus, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river.

The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and current south-eastern France known as the Ligures.. Very little is known about ancient Ligurian; the lack of inscriptions and the unknown origin of the Ligurian people prevent its certain linguistic classification as a Pre-Indo-European or an Indo-European …

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Ligauni were a Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling near the Mediterranean coast during the Iron Age and the Roman period . Contents 1 Name 2 Geography 3 References 3.1 Bibliography Name They are mentioned as Ligaunorumque by Pliny (1st c. AD).

Referências clássicas e toponímicas sugerem que a zona de influência lígure estendia-se até o centro de Itália: segundo Hesíodo (século VI a.C.), eram um dos três principais povos "bárbaros" que governavam sobre a costa ocidental do mundo conhecido (os outros eram os etíopes e os citas).Segundo Adolf Schulten «os Lígures constituem a população mais antiga da Península …

The Celto-Ligurian oppidum Between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC, the Salyens, the largest of the Celto-Ligurian tribes in Provence, built a rampart of stones on the peaks that surrounded the valley of Notre-Dame-de-Laval, and constructed an oppidum, or fortified town, around the spring in the valley, which was known for its healing powers.

Confirmed Celto-Ligurian hybrid tribes included the Orobi (Orumobii or Orumbovii) in the northern Italian valleys of Bergamo, Como, and Lecco (see below, circa 1000 BC), and the Hercates, a name seemingly adopted by migrants passing through the great Hercynia silva (Hercynian Forest - …