Italo-Celtic

As Italo - Celtic comparative linguistics refers to the inferred common precursor of the Italic and Celtic languages ​​. Italo -Celtic belongs to the western branch of the Indo-European languages ​​and was probably spoken in the first half of the second millennium BC in what is now southern Germany, Bohemia and Austria. Basis of the reconstruction of the Italo - Celtic are several specific morphological similarities between the Celtic and Italic languages ​​, which are hardly explain by borrowing, but organically through a period of common development.

Italo- Celtic common

More specific Celtic- Italic similarities in the lexicon, including some metal labels ( gold, silver, tin, etc. ). This lexical similarities were by neighborhood and loanwords quite explainable, but hardly the above grammatical similarities (see Euler 2009: 24-26).