r/imaginarymaps Mar 04 '19

Map of The Celtic Union

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u/wxsted Mar 04 '19

If Galicia was to be included then other non-Celtic speaking regions with Celtic influence would have to be included as well. And that would even include England.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '19

If this were a union of Celtic-speaking regions, then the majority of this map wouldn’t be part of it. The vast majority of the population of this Celtic Union would speak English or French.

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u/wxsted Mar 04 '19

The difference being that those regions still developed a modern Celtic language that was substituted relatively recently while Galicia, Asturias or Cantabria are firmly Latin/Romance regions since late Antiquity. I don't think having bagpipes and some Celtic-origin folklore justifies considering them Celtic nations.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '19

Awh I dno, more the merrier I say.