 According to Strabo, the Ligurians, living in proximity of numerous Celtic mountain tribes, were a different people ("ἑτεροεθνεῖς"), but "were similar to the Celts in their modes of life".They did not have their own alphabet, but their language remains in place names in Provence ending in the suffixes -"asc", -"osc".-"inc", -"ates", and -"auni".