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1. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentCeltic Languages - Linguistics - Oxford Bibliographies

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   The Celtic languages. London: Routledge. The first edition, published in 1993, contains accounts of the modern Celtic languages, covering phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis. It includes chapters on Continental and Insular Celtic and sociolinguistics. The second edition (2010) contains additional chapters on historical periods of the ...

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   Aug 26, 2009 · The Celtic Languages describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the modern Celtic languages and ...

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   Where did the Celtic language come from?

   • Celtic languages are traditionally thought to have originated in central Europe and spread across vast areas of Europe, being gradually replaced by Germanic, Romance, or Slavic languages in most areas. The Continental Celtic languages, such as Gaulish, Hispano-Celtic, and Lepontic, are all now long extinct.

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   What are the two types of Celtic languages?

   • The modern Celtic languages are divided into two subfamilies: the Goidelic (or Gaelic) languages and the Brythonic (or Brittonic) languages. The two subfamilies can also be referred to as P-Celtic and Q-Celtic. P-Celtic refers to the Brythonic/Brittonic languages, and Q-Celtic refers to the Goidelic/Gaelic languages.

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   What are the four living Celtic languages?

   • The individual chapters of Ball and Müller 2010 (and the earlier 1993 edition) provide descriptions of each of the four continuously used living Celtic languages: Welsh, Breton, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic, and of the two resurrected languages, Cornish and Manx. The various entries in Koch 2006 provide useful and accessible overviews.

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   Are Celtic languages extinct?

   • The Continental Celtic languages, such as Gaulish, Hispano-Celtic, and Lepontic, are all now long extinct. Modern Celtic languages are of interest to linguists due to various features, such as their verb-initial status. Also, the Celtic languages all evidence systems of grammaticalized initial consonant mutations.

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   The Celtic Languages. Martin John Ball, James Fife. Taylor & Francis, 2002 - Foreign Language Study - 682 pages. This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish.

   • Cornish: 410
   • The Sociolinguistics of Welsh: 534

   • Index: 663

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   This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Organized for ease of reference, The Celtic Languages is arranged in four parts. The first, Historical Aspects, covers the ...

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   This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Organized for ease of reference, The Celtic Languages is arranged in four parts. The first, Historical Aspects, covers the ...

   • Author: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller
   • Location: London

   • Publish Year: 1994

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   The Celtic languages have various unique features, both structural and sociolinguistic, both inside and outside the Indo-European linguistic situation, that make them especially worthy of study. The languages examined are Gaulish, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish.

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   Nov 12, 2012 · The Celtic Languages. Martin J. Ball, Nicole Muller. Routledge, Nov 12, 2012 - Foreign Language Study - 696 pages. This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish.