Taranis
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No, Taranis, I did not say that. I have say that is in western Hispania where you can find the oldest peninsular celtic languages, where derive celtiberian, and in the french pre-Alps (Rhone basin) and Alps were you can find the gaulish ancestor, and perhaps of the latin-falisco.
Well, you have been implying this due to the adherence of sound laws. If you argue that *p does not become *kw before *kw in western 'Hispano-Celtic' languages, which as I stated is a sound law that the Celtic family and the Italic family have in common, this per definition means that the Italic and Celtic languages are closer to each other than to these Western 'Celtic' languages, which in turn means the latter can, by the very definition, be not Celtic.
You also get into a very huge general problem from the linguitic perspectic if you want to define what exactly a Celtic language is and what not, if you say that neither *p > Ø nor *p > *kw before *kw are defining for a Celtic language.
About the irish language origin it is not from Spain primarily, but related with the celto-hispanic. This is in agreement with the archaeology, anthropology and genetic studies.
This is also impossible. Irish (at least archaic Irish) was closest to Proto-Celtic, in terms of conservativeness and lack of innovations.
When you mention some celtiberian inscriptions you must do the reference with K and its number (like the tartessian with the letter J), not with a summarized table of laws that derives fundamentally of what we know about the gaulish.
I mentioned the Botorrita inscriptions, which after all represent the main corpus of Celtiberian. All sound laws I have stated apply to the Botorrita inscriptions.
These laws cannot be applied as an absolute law because there are greatest divergences between the celtic dialects.
It's also kind of funny that you come around to say in the end that you admit we are not talking about a homogenous linguistic area. I still maintain that sound laws cannot be in free variation.
PS: Why do you bring up Tartessian here?