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5 days ago · It shows very strong evidence of being Celtic, but also some peculiarities that don't fit with some of the consistent phonetic sound changes that should have affected all Celtic languages, so some propose that it should instead be allocated its own branch within Italo-Celtic, or a whole new branch of its own without determining phylogenetic ...
4 days ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
3 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.
5 days ago · The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested in writing, but has been reconstructed to some degree through the comparative method. Proto-Italic descended from the earlier Proto-Indo-European language.
6 days ago · Similarity in Germanic and Albanian may come from the fact that both were strongly influenced by Italo-Celtic and Slavic languages. Albanian is a very young language, recorded in the XV century, so everything is possible with such languages. Anyway, Anthony and Ringe are mainstream now. You have no credibility to question them.
4 days ago · According to Wikipedia, A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970, that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not – in other words, a query returns either "possibly in set" or "definitely not in set".
4 days ago · The Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature is a full-text database containing the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe, together with the Latin works of the Irish “peregrini” on the continent, from the period 400-1200 A.D.
