The Gaulish Language as the Most Ancient Tool of the Linguistic Unity of Europe and the Ancestor of the French Language

The article is dedicated to the dead Celtic language the Gaulish language (the continental branch), which was spread on the territory of Europe up to the 6–7th centuries. The choice of the theme of the article is caused by the fact of the lack of information of this language in the modern national linguistics. This information is rather fragmentary and mythologized, with very few facts concerning the archaeological discovery on the territory of France, and it is necessary to say that many works, written on French and containing information about the Gaulish language, are very seldom used. The Gaulish language is a group of dialects of the Celtic tribes. It existed mainly in the oral form, but the Gauls often used the derived writing. The quantity of the monuments of the Gaulish language is often filled. At the present moment the investigators of the Gaulish language has the longest text written on the Gaulish language (2200 lines). It is the so-called Calendar of Coligny, discovered in 1897. In 1983 the lead-plate from Larzak was founded (57 lines,
about 1000 letters and 180 words). In 1997 the scientists had a chance to get to know with the tile from Châteaubleau, which confirmed the quite late usage of the Gaulish language (the tile dated to the 2–3 century BC). In 2010 the leadplate
from Chartres was added to the archaeological fi ndings. All the latest texts show the similar characteristics of the Gaulish language.