Pedigree: First Speaker of Early Celtic

The PEDIGREE of

First Speaker of Early Celtic

(Urnfield Culture, later Hallstatt culture); (the alternate family structure for Celtic, based on division into Insular and Continental branches, is falling into disfavor)

Note: As shown, there are two different models of how Celtic divided into its four branches. The P/Q model, which relates the Celtiberians to the Goidelics of Ireland, fits well with Irish myth, and with certain similarities between place names in Ireland and Iberia.

Born: abt. 1200 BC

"Child(ren)": First Speaker of Celtic (Continental/Insular Model) ; First Speaker of Celtic (P/Q Model) ; Speech loans from Halstatt Culture

poss. "Partner(s)": La Tene Iron Age

______	______	______	______	______	______	______	______	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____
											/	-- First Speaker of Early Eurasiatic +	====> [ 115]
										/	-- First Speaker of Eurasiatic
									/	-- First Speaker of Eurasiatic Proper
								/	-- First Speaker of Indo-Uralic
							/	-- First Speaker of Indo-Tyrrhenian
							/		\| (skip this generation?)
						/	-- First Speaker of Early Indo-Hittite
						/	\	-- prob. Man of the Seroglazovo Culture
					/	-- First Speaker of Indo-Hittite (ca 4500 BC)
				/	-- First Speaker of Late Indo-Hittite
				\|	\	-- Woman of the Late Copper Age
				\|		\	-- Woman of the Middle Copper Age
				\|			\		/	-- Man of the Danubian Neolithic Age +			====> [ 117]
				\|			\|	/	-- Man of the Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic) Age
				\|			\|	/	\	-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 6a +			====> [ 5]
				/			\	-- Woman of the Early Copper Age
			/	-- First Speaker of Indo-European Proper
		/	-- First Speaker of Late Indo-European (ca 3800 BC)
	/	-- First Speaker of Italo-Celtic (3500 BC)
	/		\| (skip this generation?)
/	-- First Speaker of proto-Celtic (2000? BC)
/
- First Speaker of Early Celtic

(poss.) ``Grandchildren:'' First Speaker of Insular Celtic ; First Speaker of P-Celtic ; First Speaker of Goidelic ; First Speaker of Late Common Germanic