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 Eurasiatic +	====> [ 41]
									/	-- First Speaker of Eurasiatic Proper
								/	-- First Speaker of Indo-Uralic
							/	-- First Speaker of Indo-Tyrrhenian
							\|		/ (skip this generation?)
							/		/ OR: First Speaker of Eurasiatic [Starostin Model] +			====> [ 36]
						/	-- First Speaker of Early Indo-Hittite
						/	\	-- prob. Man of the SEROGLAZOVO CULTURE
					/	-- First Speaker of Indo-Hittite (ca 4500 BC)
					\|	\	/	-- First Speaker of Northwest Caucasian +				====> [ 41]
					/	\	-- poss. Substrate from Northwest Caucasian
				/	-- First Speaker of Late Indo-Hittite
				\|	\	-- Woman of the Late Copper Age
				\|		\	-- Woman of the Middle Copper Age
				\|			\	/	-- Man of the CHALCOLITHIC (AENEOLITHIC) CULTURE +			====> [ 45]
				/			\	-- 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
\										/	-- First Speaker of Caucaso-Nostratic +	====> [ 34]
\|									/	-- First Speaker of Dene-Nostratic
\|								/	-- First Speaker of Amerindo-Nostratic
\|							/	-- poss. First Speaker of Nostratic
\|						/	-- First Speaker of Nostratic, African Branch
\|					/	-- First Speaker of Afroasiatic (13,000? BC)
\|					/		/ OR: First Speaker of Afroasiatic [Starostin Model] +					====> [ 36]
\|				/	-- First Speaker of Erythraean (12,000? BC)
\|			/	-- First Speaker of North Afrasian (10,000? BC)
\|		/	-- First Speaker of Proto West Boreafrasian
\|	/	-- First Speaker of proto-Berber
\|	/		/ (skip this generation?)
\	-- Adstratum from Berberish
		/ or: poss. Senegambian of Atlantic-Congo
		/ OR: First Speaker of Vasconic +										====> [ 39]

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