WI/AHC - Surviving Continental Celtic

Via the possible aid of Celtic migrations displacing any potential non-Celtic groups as well as the Helvetii quickly becoming aware of Galba's death during the Year of the Four Emperors (thereby avoiding the massive punitive campaign against them). What if Continental Celtic (either Noric, Lepontic, etc) managed to survive roughly in the areas of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Voralberg and Tyrol with scope for a small state later down the line?
 
Interested to hear some feedback on their what-if challenge scenario, could Continental Celtic have survived in the area at and between Switzerland, western Austria and later possibly Italian South Tyrol in such a scenario?
 
literally any
Beware of these two words. A Rome-screw precipitating from a collapse at the height of the Third Century Crisis could have easily had the side-effect of making the remaining Continental Celtic languages (or their syncretic products from Latin) go extinct.
 
There would possibly be some displacement though could envision Continental Celtic speakers as a minority in Switzerland and other Alpine areas as well as managing to form a small state roughly corresponding with Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg and Austrian / Italian Tyrol though not sure how doable it would be for them in other areas.
 
Maybe in a more religiously diverse Europe, one of those Alpine Continental Celtic people could survive as an ethnoreligious minority distinct from their Romance/Germanic-speaking neighbours?

Not sure they'd ever become a state, since they'd likely be under pressure from their neighbours over the centuries and by the time anyone even thinks of the idea of Noric/whatever "state", the only people who speak the language will be a few elderly people scattered over a few villages. Of course, they easily could be a state encompassing a few valleys in the area mentioned which would mostly speak the Celtic language in question.
 
Maybe in a more religiously diverse Europe, one of those Alpine Continental Celtic people could survive as an ethnoreligious minority distinct from their Romance/Germanic-speaking neighbours?

IIRC the Celtic languages were already either extinct or moribund by the time Christianity came along, so that's probably too late.
 

TruthfulPanda

Gone Fishin'
Have some Massif Central rustics be converted in the 4th century by adventurous churchmen who - in order to convert them - translated Christian literature into the local language.
Then have them spawn a line of successful chieftains in the Vth century who establish a Celtic speaking polity there.
Then have them ally with Klodwig against the Visigoths in 507 and become self-governing 1st-class allies of the Frankish state.
 

Maoistic

Banned
A Hannibal victory can help preserve continental Celtic. Hannibal persecuted Celts in Hispania, to be sure, but he also made extensive use of Celtic mercenaries if I'm not wrong and Punicisation in Hispania was very weak overall, which is why Celtic languages survived well into the Roman era, until disappearing at around the Constantinian era at the very least, most likely before. If Hannibal were to conquer Rome, for instance, it's possible that Celtic kingdoms would get benefited, preserve their independence and could even become powerful enough to challenge Carthaginian trade monopoly.
 
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