The Ancient Celtic Languages

Proto-Celtic, Common Brittonic, Pictish, Archaic Irish, Gaulish, Celtiberian, Lusitanian, Gallaecian, Noric, Lepontic, Cisalpine Gaulish, Galatian; you name it, I’ve got it in this video showcasing the Celtic Diaspora at the turn of the first millenium. Sources: “Some common developments of Continental and Insular Celtic”, in Gaulois et celtique continental, eds. Pierre-Yves Lambert & Georges-Jean Pinault. Geneva: Droz, 2017 pp. 357–371. Brythonic Celtic—Britannisches Keltisch: From Medieval British to Modern Breton, ed. Elmar Ternes. Bremen: Hempen Verlag 2011 “The Rise and Fall of British Latin: Evidence from English and Brittonic”, in The Celtic Roots of English, eds. Markkuu Filppula, Juhani Klemola, & Heli Pitkänen. Joensuu: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Humanities, 2002 pp. 87–110. Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (Éditions Errance, 2003) Guto Rhys’ The Earliest Personal Names of the North Guto Rhys’ The Pictish Language - A Historiography Rhys, Guto (2015) Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic, University of Glasgow. The Digital Irish Dictionary (eDIL) David Stifter’s Sengoídelc Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic by Ranko Matasovic
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