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5 days ago · Words from the same roots include corps (an organized group of people united by a common purpose), corpus (a collection of writings) and corpse (a dead body) and midriff (the middle section of the human torso) in English, corps (body) in French and cryf (strong) in Welsh [ source ].
3 days ago · Irish language, a member of the Goidelic group of Celtic languages, spoken in Ireland. As one of the national languages of the Republic of Ireland, Irish is taught in the public schools and is required for certain civil-service posts.
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3 days ago · Manx is one of the three daughter languages of Old Irish (via Middle Irish), the other two being Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It shares a number of developments in phonology, vocabulary and grammar with its sisters (in some cases only with certain dialects) and shows a number of unique changes.
2 days ago · According to Matras, in most dialects of Romani, Romani is a VO language, with SVO order in contrastive sentences and VSO order in thetic sentences. The tendency of some dialects to put the verb in final position may be due to Slavic influence. Examples, from Slovak Romani: Odi kuči šilaľi. - This cup is cold. Oda šilaľi kuči.
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4 days ago · Welsh language, member of the Brythonic group of the Celtic languages, spoken in Wales. Modern Welsh, like English, makes very little use of inflectional endings; British, the Brythonic language from which Welsh is descended, was, however, an inflecting language like Latin, with word endings.
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5 days ago · EP orthography shows more significant inconsistency in phoneme–grapheme conversion (involved in the spelling process) than in the reverse conversion (involved in the reading process). In addition, the EP writing system uses diacritics to enhance the transparency of spelling–sound relations [ 32 ].
5 days ago · They fall under two major categories: Continental Celtic, with extinct languages like Lepontic and Gaulish, and Insular Celtic, which includes several living languages such as Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, alongside revived languages like Cornish and Manx.
