Celtic East Africa

Which writing system would they most likely use ?

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ThatBronzeBoiJ

Basically, the last people that speak Continental Celtic are in East Africa. By East Africa I mean Eritrea and Nubia.Let's say it is around the time of the reconquista . A kingdom lies on the edge of the Muslim Empire. That kingdom's language is the only remaining descendant of Continental Celtic languages at the time of Rome.


This is where I leave this part open to the community. Make sure to share your ideas and speculate about this ATL. What would the culture, genealogy, religion, and livestyle of these people be ?
 
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Arkenfolm

How are Celts going to get all the way down there, let alone assimilate the local peoples and their millennia old culture (in particular Nubia)? I guess you have sea-raiding Celts from the Balkans or something get to Egypt, but why would they go past Egypt? There's plenty of wealth in Egypt and there's plenty of good farming land once you kick off the Egyptians. And as did every other civilisation which invaded Egypt until the Arabs, they'd assimilate into Egyptian culture and speak Egyptian before long.

And even if they did continue to Nubia, the coast is just desert with not much there. Nowadays Eritrea is better, but so is the other side in nowadays Yemen. They'd just settle in small numbers there and be assimilated into the local population.

Islam, Reconquista, and Christianity are all butterflied.
 
The Professor

The Professor

I have to agree getting Celts to East Africa without making Egypt Celtic, itself hard with the low numbers likely, is almost impossible. And if Egypt is Celtic then Eritrea won't be the last bastion of Celtic speakers.
 

RogueTraderEnthusiast

The only way I can think of this happening is the Romans wholescale resettling prisoners of war, or a huge celtic slave haul to East Africa - and that STILL requires the Romans to intervene.

But I'll bite - lets say that in a beautiful dovetail when the Gallic Empire falls, the Roman Empire decides to sell huge numbers of captured soldiers to Aksum. Men of war, as slaves, or even slave-soldiers. They take wives, have children, who are now half-Gallic/half-Ethiopian. Celtic speaking as well as Latin, and Aksumite, as a class of their own within Aksum. Weird, but.. that is the OP. Sort of a police force like the Medjay.

They essentially take control and go from Police Force, to Police State ... or something like that. They take control, and through expanding their numbers and rigid adherence to 'The System' rather than any specific commander, they keep control, creating entire districts of cities that only the 'Gauls' can enter and live.

As to writing system? Hell if I know. One imported from Gaul?
 

Falecius

There are people in Nubia who retain the memory of their Hungarian ancestry and used to practice a syncretic form of Islam. They appear to be the descendants of an Hungarian group of prisoners settled there by the Ottomans. They did not retain Hungarian language though. But this shows this might be sort of possible.
 

Epimethius

And if you keep up spamming the same topic you will be kicked. The moderator s like Calbear are quite firm when someone does exactly what you're doing
 
ArchimedesCircle

ArchimedesCircle

The only real way I could see this happening is with a different Indo-European migration that has the ancestors of the Celts settle in East Africa instead of Europe. This is however extremely difficult, and unlikely to yield anything similar to OTL Celtic languages. It also changes history to a point that's near impossible to write.
 

Arkenfolm

ArchimedesCircle said:
The only real way I could see this happening is with a different Indo-European migration that has the ancestors of the Celts settle in East Africa instead of Europe. This is however extremely difficult, and unlikely to yield anything similar to OTL Celtic languages. It also changes history to a point that's near impossible to write.
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Even then it seems about as implausible. The Indo-Europeans didn't displace any people in the Middle East outside Anatolia, and they still have to go through Egypt to get to East Africa. The Sea Peoples were absorbed into the local culture in every case in the long run.

And then of course, which traits of Celtic were derived from pre-Indo-European cultures in the area the proto-Celts settled in?
 
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