Philjames100
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Some 18th-century historians suggested based on their evidence that there were Phoenician-Celtic ties. It's believed that the Phoenicians/ Punic, who lived in Iberia/Spain, colonized a certain part of the British Isles. So, any allegedly Afro-Asiatic influence on the Celtic language is likely based on the interaction between the Phoenicians and the Celtics. It should be noted that there’s no positive evidence that the Phoenicians did trade tin in Britain. Hence, this conclusion by these 18th- century historians can’t be disproven, nor can it be proved at this point.
https://phoenicia.org/Phoenician-Celtic-connections.html
https://phoenicia.org/canaancornwall.html
https://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/12/punic-names-britain.html
Your links appear to be mostly garbage. Connections between Western Europe and North Africa go back at least to the Neolithic. Elites in Carnac in Brittany were buried in megalithic tombs with precious stones from southwestern Iberia in 4500 BC. They were going up and down the Atlantic coast, across the Bay of Biscay, thousands of years before the Phoenicians existed. The Bell Beaker culture was in North Africa thousands of years before the Phoenicians. The Phoenician presence in the western Mediterranean is a relatively late phenomenon.