one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum...
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distinct groups: Insular Celtic languages Brittonic (or Brythonic) languages Breton Cornish Welsh Goidelic languages Irish Manx Scottish Gaelic The Insular...
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Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic. All of these are Insular Celtic languages, since Breton, the only...
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of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages; the other is Goidelic. It comprises the extant languages Breton, Cornish, and Welsh. The name Brythonic...
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The Goidelic substrate hypothesis refers to the hypothesized language or languages spoken in Ireland before the arrival of the Goidelic languages. Ireland...
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accepted. They are known collectively as the Insular Celtic languages. The Goidelic language currently spoken in Scotland is Scottish Gaelic. It is widely...
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Celtic language allied to the Q-Celtic (Goidelic) languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx). Pictish was one of the Pre-Indo-European languages, a relic...
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the language of Adam. Nicholas Wolf writes that 19th-century Irish language speakers and publications claim that Irish (or some Goidelic language) is...
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Primitive Irish (redirect from Proto-Irish language)
Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages, and the ancestor of all languages within this family. This phase of the language is known...
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Cleft sentence (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
nursed last year at the village." The construction is frequent in the Goidelic languages (Scottish Gaelic, Irish, and Manx), much more so than in English,...
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Gallo-Brittonic languages, also known as the P-Celtic languages, are a proposed subdivision of the Celtic languages containing the languages of Ancient Gaul...
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Scottish Gaelic (redirect from Scottish Goidelic)
Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish...
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relationship between the three Goidelic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx). Gaelic is a collective term for the Goidelic languages, and when the context...
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Rhotacism (redirect from Rhotacism (language change))
consonant in Proto-Germanic. Some languages later changed all forms to r, but Gothic, an extinct East Germanic language, did not undergo rhotacism. Note...
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Gaelic (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
refer to: Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, including: Primitive...
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Debuccalization (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
/ɡ/ was spirantized and later debuccalized in languages such as Belarusian, the Czech–Slovak languages, Ukrainian, and Upper Sorbian, e.g. Serbian bog...
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Vocative case (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
others still distinguish it, including the Baltic languages, some Celtic languages and most Slavic languages. Some linguists, such as Albert Thumb [de], argue...
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the extinct Cumbric, both Western Brittonic languages, are more distantly related, and the Goidelic languages (Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic) have a slight...
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used, for example when discussing the relationship between the three Goidelic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx) or to avoid confusion with Manx...
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Common Brittonic (redirect from British language (Celtic))
O'Rahilly's historical model suggests a Brittonic language in Ireland before the introduction of the Goidelic languages, but this view has not found wide acceptance...
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The Irish language is a modern Goidelic language spoken in Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic or Gaeilge. Irish language may also refer to: Hiberno-English...
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Ulster Scots Brythonic languages Western Brittonic languages Welsh Southwestern Brittonic languages Cornish Goidelic languages Irish Ulster Irish Scottish...
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Ch (digraph) (category Articles containing Catalan-language text)
hlas ("voice"). In the Slovak alphabet, it comes between H and I. In Goidelic languages, ch represents the voiceless velar fricative [x]. In Irish, ch stands...
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Isle of Man (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
St. Patrick began settling the island, and the Manx language, a branch of the Goidelic languages, emerged. In 627, King Edwin of Northumbria conquered...
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Celtic mythology (redirect from Goidelic mythology)
Celtic languages: Ancient Celtic religion (known primarily through archaeological sources rather than through written mythology) mythology in Goidelic languages...
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Dialect continuum (redirect from Cluster of languages)
recognize because many of the intervening languages have declined or become extinct. The Goidelic languages consist of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx...
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Erse (redirect from Erse language)
alternative name for any Goidelic language, especially the Irish language, from Erische A 16th–19th-century Scots language name for Scottish Gaelic....
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Picts (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
Pictish language influenced the development, grammar and vocabulary of Scottish Gaelic, which has some characteristics unique among the Goidelic languages and...
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Tag question (section In Celtic languages)
needed] Like English, the Celtic languages form tag questions by echoing the verb of the main sentence. The Goidelic languages, however, make little or no...
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List of Celtic deities (category Articles containing Breton-language text)
Gaels inhabited Ireland and parts of western Scotland. They spoke Goidelic languages. Achtland Aibell Aimend Aífe Áine - goddess of summer, wealth and...
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