The
Continental Celtic languages are the
Celtic languages, now extinct, that were spoken on the continent of Europe, as distinguished from the
Insular Celtic languages of the
British Isles and
Brittany.
Continental Celtic is a geographic, not a linguistic, grouping of the ancient Celtic languages. The Continental Celtic languages were spoken by the people known to Roman and Greek writers as
Keltoi,
Celtae,
Galli and
Galatae. These languages were spoken in an arc stretching across from
Iberia in the west to the
Balkans and
Anatolia in the east.