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CHAPTER VII.
Keltic Ground. European Divisions of Aryan Language.
Turkish, Magyar. Etruscan. Basque. Are Latin
AND Greek Keltic ? German and French Keltic
Scholars. Marcellus of Bordeaux. Zeuss and
Windisch on Irish. Wharton and Windisch on
Greek. Changes in Keltic Ground, Object of
Vocabulary.
I HAVE already indicated in a former chapter Keltic ground
the Keltic ground, namely, the British Islands/^'"'"'^'^'
Gaul, the Cymric peninsula ; crossing the Rhine
and north of the Danube, Bohemia and Moravia;
crossing the Danube on its southern bank,
Rhaetia, Vindelicia, Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia,
and Thrace. In Asia, Galatia or Gallo'^ Grsecia.
Returning by Greece and Italy, it is admitted
that the whole of Northern Italy was Keltic, as
was the whole of Helvetia and Spain. Gener-
ally speaking, we might have returned from
Asia Minor through the Mediterranean to the
Atlantic, leaving Keltic ground always on the
right. We have also seen that the broad divi-
sions of the Aryan tongue in Europe were the
Slav, the German, the Keltic, the Latin, and European
the Greek. We have also seen that these a^™°^
peoples were of the same race, in so far as a ^^"2"^^^'
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