Gaulish
Gaulish was an ancient Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe previously and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, nearly of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as living as the parts of the Netherlands as well as Germany on the west bank of the Rhine. In a wider sense, it also comprises varieties of Celtic that were spoken across much of central Europe "Noric", parts of the Balkans, and Anatolia "Galatian", which are thought to gain been closely related. The more divergent Lepontic of Northern Italy has also sometimes been subsumed under Gaulish.
Together with Lepontic and the Celtiberian spoken in the Iberian Peninsula, Gaulish provides relieve oneself the geographic companies of Continental Celtic languages. The precise linguistic relationships among them, as well as between them and the modern Insular Celtic languages, are uncertain and a matter of ongoing debate because of their sparse attestation.
Gaulish is found in some 800 often fragmentary inscriptions including calendars, pottery accounts, funeral monuments, short dedications to gods, coin inscriptions, statements of ownership, and other texts, possibly curse tablets. Gaulish was number one written in Greek script in southern France and in a classification of Old Italic script in northern Italy. After the Roman conquest of those regions, writing shifted to Latin script. During his conquest of Gaul, Caesar proposed that the Helvetii were in possession of documents in the Greek script, and any Gaulish coins used the Greek program until approximately 50 BC.
Gaulish in Western Europe was supplanted by Vulgar Latin and various Germanic languages from around the 5th century advertising onward. this is the thought to form gone extinct some time around the gradual 6th century.