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  1. guistic descriptions of the contemporary languages. Part II has chapters on Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx, while Part III covers Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Part IV is devoted to the socio linguistic situation of the four contemporary Celtic languages and also has a fi nal chapter describing the status of the two revived languages Cornish and Manx.

  2. This is because Irish, Scottish, Manx, Breton, Welsh, and Cornish are related. As the six remaining Celtic languages, they unsurprisingly share similarities in their phonetics, phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax. However, the exact relationship between these languages and their predecessors has long been disputed in Celtic linguistics.

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  4. The relationship between Italic and the other subgroups (except Celtic; see above) is discussed. Chapter 9 , by Anders Richardt Jørgensen, first presents the Celtic languages and discusses the arguments, mostly of phonological nature, for a Celtic subgroup.

  5. The Six Celtic Languages There was a unifying language spoken by the Celts, called not surprisingly, old Celtic. Philologists have shown the descendence of Celtic from the original Ur-language and from the Indo-European language tradition. In fact, the form of old Celtic was the closest cousin to Italic, the precursor of Latin.

  6. Michael Weiss. Edited by. Thomas Olander. Chapter. Figures. Save PDF. Cite. Summary. This chapter discusses the evidence for the existence of an intermediate subgroup Proto-Italo-Celtic, the parent of Proto-Italic and Proto-Celtic. The chapter also examines the connections between Italic and Celtic and the other northwest Indo-European subgroups.

  7. 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. [62]

  8. Gaulish and then from Gaulish to the ancestor of the Insular Celtic languages, which were already on the British Isles by this time. 14 The oft-cited Tocharian class V ā-subjunctive (Toch.Awekaṣ ‘will disappear’, Toch.B m rsaṃ ‘will forget’) does not belong with the Italic and Celtic forms. PIE *ā becomes CToch. *å

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