Editing Galatian language (section)

{{short description|Extinct Celtic language from Asia Minor}}
{{About|the extinct Celtic language spoken in Anatolia|the extinct Iberian Celtic language|Gallaecian language|the current Iberian Romance language|Galician language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Galatian
| region           = [[Galatia]]
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Celtic languages|Celtic]]
| fam3             = [[Continental Celtic languages|Continental Celtic]]
| fam4             = [[Gaulish language|Gaulish]]
| extinct          = 4th century AD (possibly 6th century AD)
| iso3             = xga
| glotto           = gala1252
| glottorefname    = Galatian
| linglist         = xga
| map              = Roman Empire - Galatia (125 AD).svg
| mapcaption       = The Roman province of Galatia
| ethnicity        = [[Galatians (people)|Galatians]]
}}

'''Galatian''' is an extinct [[Celtic languages|Celtic language]] once spoken by the [[Galatians (people)|Galatians]] in [[Galatia]], in central [[Anatolia]] ([[Asia]]n part of modern [[Turkey]]), from the 3rd century BC up to at least the 4th century AD. Some sources suggest that it was still spoken in the 6th century.{{sfn|Eska|2006|p=788}} Galatian was contemporary with, and closely related to, [[Gaulish]].{{Sfn|Freeman|2001|p=3}}{{Sfn|Eska|2013|p=53}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maier |first1=Bernhard |last2=Windle |first2=Kevin |chapter=The Celts in Asia Minor |title=The Celts: A History From Earliest Times to the Present |pages=108–116 [111–112] |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |date=2017 |doi=10.1515/9781474427210-011 |quote=One of the foremost features of the Galatian culture ... according to the documentary and literary evidence, is its Celtic language. ... we are dealing here not with an independent member of the mainland Celtic family, ... but rather with a variant of Gaulish.}}</ref>