LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM Name of requester : Chris Lilley E-mail address of requester: chris@w3.org Tag to be registered : cel-gaulish English name of language : Gaulish French name of language : Gauloise Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): not known Reference to published description of the language (book or article): Dottin, Georges. 1918. La langue gauloise - grammaire, textes et glossaire. Paris. no ISBN. Lambert, Pierre-Yves. 1997. La langue gauloise. Editions Errance, Paris. ISBN 2-87772-089-6 various. 1985-. Recueil des Inscriptions Gauloises. Paris, CNRS. Multiple volumes, publication ongoing. Vol 1, Textes gallo-Grecs, 1985. Vol 2, Textes gallo-etrusques , textes gallo-latins sur pierre, 1988. Vol 3, Les calendriers (Coligny, Villards d'Heria), 1988. Vol 4, Textes gallo-latins de l'instrumentum, estimated 2001 (in press). Lejeune, Michel. 1985. Notes d'etymologie gauloise: le premiere declension celtique. Etudes Celtique XXII, 88-91 Koch, John. 1985. Movement and emphasis in the Gaulish sentence. Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XXXII, 1-37. Any other relevant information: Gaulish was the language of ancient Gaul - roughly corresponding in geographical area to modern France, Belgium, Luxembourg and western Switzerland. It is a member of the Celtic group of Indo-European languages. It was written in several different scripts, including Greek, Iberian, Latin, Etruscan and Lepontic. ===== -- Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie 15 Port Chaeimhghein Mochtarach; Baile Atha Cliath 2; Iire/Ireland Mob +353 86 807 9169 ** Fax +353 1 478 2597 ** Vox +353 1 478 2597 27 Pairc an Fhiithlinn; Baile an Bhsthair; Co. Atha Cliath; Iire (created Mar 26 2001) (last updated Mar 26 2001) []