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3 days ago · The Celtic languages ( / ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tik) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic. [1] The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, [2] following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described by classical writers and the Welsh and ...
3 days 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 ...
2 days ago · For at least 1,000 years the name Celt was not used at all, and nobody called themselves Celts or Celtic, until from about 1700, after the word 'Celtic' was rediscovered in classical texts, it was applied for the first time to the distinctive culture, history, traditions, language of the modern Celtic nations – Ireland, Scotland, Wales ...
Jul 4, 2024 · Insular Celtic refers to the Celtic languages of the British Isles, together with Breton (spoken in Brittany, France). As the name Breton implies, it is an importation from Britain and is not a Continental Celtic dialect. Although there is some scanty evidence from classical sources—mainly place-names—and a small body of inscriptions in the ...
Jul 4, 2024 · The phonological possibility is that in Italo-Celtic there was a phoneme /ɔ/ (whether from *a or *o) which developed into Italic *a and Celt. *o under some circumstances. Although the sample is miniscule, it is noteworthy that in all five of the pairs in which Celtic has -o-and Latin has -a-, Celt.
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Jul 4, 2024 · Another possibility is that this feature is a retention from proto-Italo-Celtic lost in the rest of Celtic, as Michael Weiss points out to me. 7. I presume that the Insular Celtic languages are unified under an Insular Celtic node on the family tree, the dual flexional system of the verb being so robust and unusual an innovation that it can ...
Jul 4, 2024 · Celtic languages - Insular, Dialects, Grammar: The new languages, the only forms of Celtic that are known thoroughly, present a considerable number of unusual features, some of them unknown to other Indo-European languages. Some scholars have argued that these features may have resulted from the presence of a large non-Celtic substratum in the British Isles. Because it is hardly likely that ...
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