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Ancient Belgian is a hypothetical extinct Indo-European language, spoken in Belgica (northern Gaul) in late prehistory. While it remains a matter of controversy and most linguists consider the Belgae to have spoken a Celtic language,〔Belgae. MSN Encarta. Retrieved 16.02.2011〕〔Dáithí Ó hÓgáin. 2003. The Celts: a history. P.10〕〔Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason. 2006. Encyclopedia of European peoples. vol.1. P.65〕〔Koch, John T. 2006. Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia. P.196〕〔Bell, Andrew Villen. 2000. The role of migration in the history of the Eurasian steppe. P.112〕〔Swan, Toril, Endre Mørck, Olaf Jansen Westvik. 1994. Language change and language structure: older Germanic languages in a Comparative Perspective. P.294〕〔Aldhouse-Green, Miranda Jane. 1995. The Celtic world. P.607.〕〔MacKillop, James. 2004. A dictionary of Celtic mythology〕 the linguist Maurits Gysseling — who himself attributed the term to SJ De Laet — hypothesised a Belgian that was distinct from Celtic. Proponents of the theory also suggest that Belgian was distinct from neighbouring Germanic languages.〔Rolf Hachmann, Georg Kossack and Hans Kuhn. ''Völker zwischen Germanen und Kelten'', 1986, p183-212.〕 According to the theory, which was further elaborated by Hans Kuhn and others, traces of Belgian can be found in certain toponyms such as South-East-Flemish Bevere, Eine, Mater and Melden. ==Overview== The borders of the Belgian Sprachraum are made up by the Canche and the Authie in the south-west, the Weser and the Aller in the east, and the Ardennes and the German Mittelgebirge in the south-east. It has been hypothetically associated with the Nordwestblock, more specifically with the Hilversum culture. The use of the name ''Belgian'' for the language is to some extent supported by Caesar's ''De Bello Gallico'' which mentions that the Belgae and the Galli spoke different languages. It is furthermore supported by toponyms in present-day Belgium which, according to the linguist Hans Kuhn, point at the existence of an Indo-European language distinct from the Celtic and Germanic languages.〔Rolf Hachmann, Georg Kossack and Hans Kuhn. ''Völker zwischen Germanen und Kelten'', 1986, p183-212.〕 Proponents of the Belgian language hypothesis also suggest that it was influenced by Germanic languages during a first, early "germanicization" in the third century BC – as distinct from the Frankish colonization in the fifth to the eighth century. For example, the Germanic sound shifts (p → f, t → th, k → h, ǒ → ă) have affected toponyms which supposedly have a Belgian-language origin. Characteristic of Belgian said to include the retainment of ''p'' after the sound shifts. Names of bodies of water ending in -''ara'' (as in the name for the Dender), -''ănā'' or -''ǒnā'' as in ''Matrǒnā'' (nowadays Mater) and settlement names ending in -''iǒm'' are supposedly typically Belgian as well. According to Gysseling, traces of Belgian are still visible. The diminutive suffix -''ika'', the feminizing suffixes -''agjōn'' and -''astrjō'' and the collective suffix -''itja''- have been incorporated in Dutch, sometimes very productively. In toponymy, ''apa'', ''poel'', ''broek'', ''gaver'', ''drecht'', ''laar'' and ''ham'' are retained as Belgian loanwords. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ancient Belgian language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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