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| | CELT : Encyclopedia Entry |
 | | Disciplines such as ancient history, palaeolinguistics, archaeology, history of art, anthropology, population genetics, history of religion, ethnology, mythology and folklore studies must all be taken into consideration and their findings compared one with another, without falling into the fallacies of what John Collis (2003) has termed the "continuous circular argument" (Lorrio and Zapatero). |
 | | However, speakers of Celtic languages enter history from around 600 BC, when they were already split into several languages groups, and spread over much of Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula, Ireland and Britain. |
 | | It may be the result of an early borrowing (in the 4th century BC) of the Celtic tribal name Volcae into early Germanic (becoming the Proto-Germanic *Walh-, "foreigner of the Roman lands" and the suffixed form *Walhisk-). |
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