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18 hours ago · The Italo-Celtic subgroup was at one point uncontroversial, considered by Antoine Meillet to be even better established than Balto-Slavic. The main lines of evidence included the genitive suffix -ī ; the superlative suffix -m̥mo ; the change of /p/ to /kʷ/ before another /kʷ/ in the same word (as in penkʷe > *kʷenkʷe > Latin quīnque ...
Phylogenetic modelling can make some guesses as to the relationship between branches (e.g. Canby et al 2024, Heggarty et al 2023 ), but fragmentary languages like Elymian and Thracian are insufficiently attested to be included in such models.
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6 days ago · Within the Indo-European family, the Celtic languages have sometimes been placed with the Italic languages in a common Italo-Celtic subfamily. This hypothesis fell somewhat out of favour after reexamination by American linguist Calvert Watkins in 1966.
May 14, 2024 · Celtic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken throughout much of Western Europe in Roman and pre-Roman times and currently known chiefly in the British Isles and in the Brittany peninsula of northwestern France. On both geographic and chronological grounds, the languages.
3 days ago · Eight of the top ten biggest languages, by number of native speakers, are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct.
May 17, 2024 · The Irish word ailt refers to a steep-sided glen, ravine, height or cliff. There are cognate words in other Celtic languages, such as allt (hill, slope, cliff) in Welsh [ More details ]. Nant Gwrtheyrn.
May 20, 2024 · At one time Celtic languages were spoken across much of Europe and Anatolia. The cultures of these ancient Celtic language speakers have influenced many parts of Western culture. Today Celtic languages are mostly spoken in northwestern Europe, but modern speakers of these languages have moved all around the world, and have taken their language ...
