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4 days ago · Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
3 days ago · The Gaels ( / ɡeɪlz / GAYLZ; Irish: Na Gaeil [n̪ˠə ˈɡeːlʲ]; Scottish Gaelic: Na Gàidheil [nə ˈkɛː.al]; Manx: Ny Gaeil [nə ˈɡeːl]) are an ethnolinguistic group [6] native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. [a] [10] They are associated with the Gaelic languages: a branch of the Celtic languages comprising Irish, Manx and ...
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5 days ago · Irish has its roots in Proto-Celtic, the common ancestor of all Celtic languages, tracing back to around 1000 BC. Entering the historical record with Ogham inscriptions, the earliest form of Irish, Primitive Irish, is preserved mostly on stone monuments and dates back to the 3rd or 4th century.
1 day ago · The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; another nine subdivisions are now extinct .
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
3 days ago · Though originating from different geographical regions, with the Celts primarily rooted in what is now Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and the Norse hailing from Scandinavia, their mythologies offer an intriguing study in both contrast and convergence.
3 days ago · Ancient Celtic alphabet of one of the Irish runic languages. It was used by the druids and abandoned after the first few centuries of the Christian era. Ordovices. From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures. Ancient Bitons who inhabited present-day north Wales. Their name is thought to mean ‘hammer warriors’.
4 days ago · Ancient Celts. Celt is a modern English word; its origins in Latin is “ Celtae” or in Greek “ Keltoi”. Used to refer to groups of people that inhabited a great deal of Europe and Asia Minor (or Anatolia) in the pre-Roman period. The Celtic culture began forming and evolving in the late Bronze Age and reached its peak in 5th to 1st centuries BC.
