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  1. Irish is one of the so-called Celtic languages, a sub-family of Indo-European. The Celtic languages documented and in part still spoken in modern times are Irish, Manx, and Scottish-Gaelic (dialects of a previous intermediate linguistic stage known as Goidelic), together with Welsh, Cornish, and Breton (which stem from a different intermediate ...

  2. Goidelic languages, one of two groups of the modern Celtic languages; the group includes Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic. The Goidelic languages originated in Ireland and are distinguished from the other group of Insular Celtic tongues—the Brythonic—by the retention of the sound q (later.

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    Some words beginning with p or b in the Brythonic or P-Celtic languages begin with c, k or qu (/k/) in the Goidelic or Q-Celtic languages. For example, head is pen in Welsh and ceannin Irish.
    Some words beginning with gw in the Brythonic languages begin with f in the Goidelic languages. For example, hair is gwallt in Welsh and faltin Scottish Gaelic.
    Some words beginning with s(e/i) /ʃ/ in the Goidelic languages begin with h in the Brythonic languages. For example, old is sean in Irish and henin Welsh.
    The only word in these examples that is similar in all the languages is name: ainm (Irish), ainm (Scottish Gaelic), ennym (Manx), anv (Breton), hanow (Cornish) and enw(Welsh).
    The word for what - Cén (Irish), De (Scottish Gaelic), Cre (Manx), Petra (Breton), Pyth (Cornish) and Beth(Welsh) - illustrates one of the sound differences between the branches of the Celtic langu...
    There are more similarities within each branch of these languages than between the branches (Gaelic and Brythonic), and the Gaelic languages are closer to one another than are the Brythonic languages.
    There are other versions of these phrases: see the What's your name?phrases page.

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    There are two main historical theories concerning the origin and development of the Gaelic languages from a Proto-Celtic root: the North Atlantic-based Insular Celtic hypothesis posits that Goidelic and Brythonic languages have a more recent common ancestor than Continental Celtic languages, while the Q-Celtic and P-Celtic hypothesis posits ...

  4. The Goidelic (/ ɡ ɔɪ ˈ d ɛ l ɪ k / goy-DEL-ik) or Gaelic languages (Irish: teangacha Gaelacha; Scottish Gaelic: cànanan Goidhealach; Manx: çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.

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  7. Irish ( Standard Irish: Gaeilge ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( / ˈɡeɪlɪk / GAY-lik ), [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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