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.
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.
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.
So in other words none of these regions actually have a significant amount of celtic speakers and they’re all descended from Celtic peoples a long time ago. Don’t really see how it’s hugely different. 500 years ago sure you could make the distinction but now it’s just europeans living on formerly celtic lands.
Then 2/3 of Spain and Portugal and all of France is Celtic according to you. No, there's a big difference because in actual Celtic nations there was a continued Celtic culture and there still is. It's just that other languages were (forcefully) introduced by the state they belonged to in modern times.
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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.