![]() In addition, the people were known in antiquity as Celto-Ligurians (in Greek Κελτολίγυες Keltolígues), presumably due to evidence of strong Celtic influences on their language and culture. Some think a connection with the Celts but it is a certain anachronism given that the Celtic culture arrives very late, the Celtic language family, partly based on inferences from local toponyms and from proper names that have been common in the region. Scholars have suggested that it may have been a Pre-Indo-European or non-Indo-European. ![]() ![]() Little is known about the Old Ligurian language because there are no known written records or inscriptions in it, and because it is not known where the ancient Ligurian people originally came from. However, it is generally believed that around 2000 BC, the Ligurians occupied a much larger area, including much of north-western Italy, all of northern Tuscany (the part that lies north of the Arno river), southern france, and a portion of what today is Catalonia (in the north-eastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula). In pre-Roman times, the Ligurians occupied, at a minimum, the present-day Italian region of Liguria, Piedmont south of the Po river and north-western Tuscany, and the French region of Alpes-Maritimes which is also in the Italian geographical area. ![]() Roman Liguria, between the rivers of Var in the West, of Po in the North, and of Magra in the East.
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