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Key facts
- Region
- Galatia
- Ethnicity
- Galatians
- Extinct
- 4th century AD (possibly 6th century AD)
- Language family
- Indo-European Celtic Nuclear or Continental Celtic Gaulish Galatian
- Iso 639 3
- xga
- Linguist list
- xga
- Glottolog
- gala1252
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ancient language
- Subclass of
- Continental Celtic
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- topic's main category
- Category:Galatian language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
- indigenous to
- Galatia
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Encyclopedic overview
Galatian is an extinct Celtic language once spoken by the Galatians in Galatia, in central Anatolia (Asian part of modern Turkey), from the 3rd century BC up to at least the 4th century AD. Some sources suggest that it was still spoken in the 6th century. Galatian was contemporary with, and closely related to, Gaulish. It has been described as a variant or dialect of the Gaulish language.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galatian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.