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The alps where not full of gallic people when Celts formed la Tene in the west and Halstatt in the east of the lower northern alps. La Tene was on the Helvetica side and halstatt was in Noricum, the illyric side , named after the Nori people who once celtinized became known as Norici
There was no cultural discontinuity between Hallstatt and La Tene. Scholars have agreed on a specific date after which the culture was to be referred to as La Tene rather than Halstatt, and the separate name was applied to the period when the culture expanded westward and also came under the influence of Etruscans and also Greeks who had settled in what is now southern France. So the two cultures can be distinguished in the sense that La Tene is a continuation of Hallstatt. And since we know that La Tene people spoke a Celtic language, it's reasonable to believe that Halstatt people did as well, or at least that most Hallstatt people did. And the Gallic people are simply the continuation of the La Tene culture in a specific geographical area during the Roman era.