Much of English is from Latin.
Correct... because the invaders learn the language of the indigenes.
and Latin is Ligurian...
"the Latin language was that of the Ligurian Plebeians and not that of the Sabine Patricians."--Ridgeway, Who Were The Romans?
"Avienus makes only one direct reference to the Celts when he mentions that
beyond the tin-producing Oestrymnides was a land now occupied by the Celts,
who took it from
the Ligurians."--Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts
The Indigenes of Albion
(long barrow, long heads)
"[Sergi's] own authentic series of Ligurian skulls proves them, on the contrary, to have been long-headed, with narrow noses, orthognathic"
--Ligurians, Iberians, and Siculi; Science, Current Notes on Anthropology, 1892.
Their Priests
"Bertrand and Reinach both maintain the pre-Celtic origin of Druidism."
--Wright, Druidism the Ancient Faith of Britain
"so we must pass on to the non-Celtic natives, who had another religion, namely, druidism, which may be surmised to have had its origin among them."
--Rhys, Celtic Britain
"The monuments we call Druidical, must be appropriated, exclusively, to the Aborigines of the midland, and western divisions."
--Davies, Celtic Researches
"the Celtic invaders of Britain did not create Druidism, and, neolithic or not, it was at all events pre-Celtic."
--Holmes, Caesar's Conquest
"They were distinguished from the Celtae, not merely by their manners and customs, but by their small stature and dark hair and eyes, and are stated by Pliny and Strabo to have inhabited Spain. They have also left marks of their presence in Central Gaul in the name of the Loire (Ligur), and possibly in Britain in the obscure name of the Lloegrians."
--Dawkins, Cave Hunting
"That Entremont was an oppidum of Ligurians and not Gauls is further proved by the absence of any signs of wooden beams, alternating with layers of stone, described and approved of by Caesar."
--Hall, Romans on the Riviera
"SA´LYES (Σάλυες) SA´LYI, SALLU´VII, or SA´LLYES (Steph. Byz. s. v.), a Ligurian people in Gallia. There are other varieties in the writing of the word. The early Greeks gave the name of Ligyes to these Salyes; and their territory, which was in the possession of the Massaliots, when Strabo wrote, was originally called Ligystice.
--Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., Smith
"no bird nested in the nemeton, nor did any animal lurk nearby; the leaves constantly shivered though no breeze stirred."--Lucan, Pharsalia
"It is almost certain that second-sight and other ecstatic moods must be referred to the pre-Celtic races."
--MacBain, Celtic Mythology and Religion
"a stormy channel separates the coast which the Damnonii occupy from the island Silura, whose inhabitants preserve the ancient manners, reject money, barter merchandise, value what they require by exchange rather than by price, worship the gods, and both men and women profess a knowledge of the future."
--Skene, Celtic Scotland
"In Siluria, Bardism still observed its original principles, and Bran, as a member, would be bound by its rules to lay the doctrine of Christianity which he had embraced before a Gorsedd, or public convention, as far as was practicable. This, it is admitted, was not a very feasible task, for although the region was not finally reduced before the year 77, yet it was in the meanwhile the scene of active warfare, and the open proceedings of the Bards would be particularly opposed by the Romans, being regarded by them as the especial source of patriotism, freedom, and independence. This was remarkably instanced in the conduct of Suetonius Paulinus, who so cruelly massacred an assembly of Druids, and cut down their sacred groves in the isle of Anglesey about the year 59."
--Williams, Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Cymry
