Gallische Sprache

Das Gallische oder Gallisch ist eine keltische Sprache, die im Altertum in Gallien gesprochen wurde. Die gallische Sprache ist die am besten belegte der fünf festlandkeltischen Sprachen, die heute alle ausgestorben sind. Gallisch als Sprachbezeichnung ist mindestens seit Aulus Gellius (ca. 180 nach Christus) belegt.^[1]

1. ↑ Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Auszug: ueluti Romae nobis praesentibus uetus celebratusque homo in causis, sed repentina et quasi tumultuaria doctrina praeditus, cum apud praefectum urbi uerba faceret et dicere uellet inopi quendam miseroque uictu uiuere et furfureum panem esitare uinumque eructum et feditum potare. ‚hic‘, inquit, ‚eques Romanus apludam edit et flocces bibit‘. aspexerunt omnes qui aderant alius alium, primo tristiores turbato et requirente uoltu quidnam illud utriusque uerbi foret: post deinde, quasi nescio quid Tusce aut Gallice dixisset, uniuersi riserunt. – “For instance in Rome in our presence, a man experienced and celebrated as a pleader, but furnished with a sudden and, as it were, hasty education, was speaking to the Prefect of the City, and wished to say that a certain man with a poor and wretched way of life ate bread from bran and drank bad and spoiled wine. “This Roman knight”, he said, “eats apluda and drinks flocces.” All who were present looked at each other, first seriously and with an inquiring expression, wondering what the two words meant; thereupon, as if he might have said something in, I don’t know, Gaulish or Etruscan, all of them burst out laughing.” (nach BLOM 2007: 183)