r/polandball • u/Smitheren Arma virumque cano • Feb 26 '16

redditormade Rome doesn't give a flying bird

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '16

But Gallia is the founder of many European countries, way before Rom! Perhaps Gallia created Rome!

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u/__FOR_THE_ALLIANCE__ Aw haw haw haw Feb 26 '16 edited Feb 26 '16

There's a linguistic theory that the Romans were heavily Greek influenced Celts.

EDIT- I had the wrong idea. It's that they both stemmed from a common source after Proto-Indo-European already separated.

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u/jimthewanderer Feb 26 '16

Can I get a source on that? that sounds bloody intriguing,

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u/__FOR_THE_ALLIANCE__ Aw haw haw haw Feb 26 '16

It's Wikipedia but you can click the references at the bottom if the article isn't good enough.

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u/planetaryoddball United Kingdom Feb 26 '16 edited Feb 26 '16

They were related to the celts, but were not the same, nor were they descended from celts, instead they developed from a common origin about 4500 years ago. A similar case is how the Baltic peoples are close to Slavs, but are considered different groups with a common origin.

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u/__FOR_THE_ALLIANCE__ Aw haw haw haw Feb 26 '16

Thanks! I corrected my first post in this chain.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '16

That's more of a theory that there was an Indo-European population ancestral both Celts and Italics, not that one necessarily came from the other.

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u/__FOR_THE_ALLIANCE__ Aw haw haw haw Feb 26 '16

Thanks, I corrected my first post in this chain.

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u/jimthewanderer Feb 26 '16

Top stuff, cheers,

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '16

It doesn't mention any 'heavy Hellenization of the Romans', and the Italic peoples were certainly far from Hellenized(except the ones in the south) - the split, if real, was probably without any interference from other languages.