Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Belgian is a hypothetical extinct Indo-European language, spoken in Belgica (northern Gaul) in late prehistory. While it remains a matter of controversy and most linguists consider the Belgae to have spoken a Celtic language, the linguist Maurits Gysseling — who himself attributed the term to SJ De Laet — hypothesised a Belgian that was distinct from Celtic. Proponents of the theory also suggest that Belgian was distinct from neighbouring Germanic languages.. }
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- Ancient_Belgian_language comment "Belgian is a hypothetical extinct Indo-European language, spoken in Belgica (northern Gaul) in late prehistory. While it remains a matter of controversy and most linguists consider the Belgae to have spoken a Celtic language, the linguist Maurits Gysseling — who himself attributed the term to SJ De Laet — hypothesised a Belgian that was distinct from Celtic. Proponents of the theory also suggest that Belgian was distinct from neighbouring Germanic languages.".