Celtic languages

Celtic
Geographic distribution:	Formerly widespread in Europe; today British Isles, Brittany, Patagonia and Nova Scotia
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Celtic
Proto-language:	Proto-Celtic
Subdivisions:	Continental Celtic Insular Celtic
ISO 639-2 and 639-5:	cel

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The Celtic languages (pronounced /ˈkɛltɪk/ or /ˈsɛltɪk/^[1]) are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707.^[2]

Celtic languages are most commonly spoken on the north-western edge of Europe, notably in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, and can be found spoken on Cape Breton Island and in Patagonia. Some people speak Celtic languages in the other Celtic diaspora areas of the United States,^[3] Canada, Australia,^[4] and New Zealand.^[5] In all these areas, the Celtic languages are now only spoken by minorities though there are continuing efforts at revitalization.

During the 1st millennium BCE, they were spoken across Europe, from the Bay of Biscay and the North Sea, up the Rhine and down the Danube to the Black Sea and the Upper Balkan Peninsula, and into Asia Minor (Galatia). The spread to Cape Breton and Patagonia occurred in modern times. Celtic languages were spoken in Australia before federation in 1901.

Contents 1 Living languages 1.1 Demographics 1.2 Mixed languages 2 Classifications 3 Characteristics of Celtic languages 3.1 Comparison table 3.2 Examples 4 Notes 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Living languages

SIL Ethnologue lists six "living" Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers. These are Welsh and Breton, descended from the British language, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic, descended from Old Irish.

The other two, Cornish and Manx, were spoken into modern times but later died as spoken community languages.^[6][7][8] For both these languages, however, revitalization movements have led to the adoption of these languages by adults and children and produced some native speakers.^[9][10]

Taken together, there were roughly one million native speakers of Celtic languages as of the 2000s.^[11] In 2010, there were more than 1.4 million speakers of Celtic languages. ^[12]

Demographics

Language	Native name	Grouping	Native speakers	Total speakers	Main area where the language is spoken	Language body
Welsh	Cymraeg	Brythonic	450,000+	750,000+: — Wales: 611,000[13] — England: 150,000[14] — Chubut Province, Argentina: 5,000[15]	Wales; Chubut	Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg (though not in Chubut)
Irish	Gaeilge	Goidelic	Estimates of fully native speakers range from 40,000 to 80,000 people.[16][17][18][19] In the republic, just over 72,000 people use Irish as a daily language outside the education system.[20]	Ireland (sovereign state) 538,283, United Kingdom 95,000, USA 18,000. (Irish census figures indicate 1,738,384 with some knowledge [21][22] but a significant percentage of these know only a little Irish.)[23]	Ireland	Foras na Gaeilge
Breton	Brezhoneg	Brythonic	?	200,000 [24]	Brittany	Ofis ar Brezhoneg
Scottish Gaelic	Gàidhlig	Goidelic	58,552 as of 2001 [25] as well as an estimated 400-1000 native speakers on Cape Breton Island[26][27]	92,400 [28]	Scotland	Bòrd na Gàidhlig
Cornish	Kernowek	Brythonic	600 [29]	3,000 [30]	Cornwall	Keskowethyans an Taves Kernewek
Manx	Gaelg	Goidelic	100,[9][31] including a small number of children who are new native speakers[32]	1,700 [33]	Isle of Man	Coonceil ny Gaelgey

Mixed languages

• Shelta, Based largely on Irish with influence from an undocumented source (some 86,000 speakers in 2009).^[34]
• Some forms of Welsh-Romani or Kååle also combined Romany itself with Welsh language and English language forms (extinct).^[35]

Classifications

Proto-Celtic divided into four sub-families:

• Gaulish and its close relatives Lepontic, Noric, and Galatian. Lepontic, the oldest attested Celtic language (from the 6th century BC), is treated as a primary branch by some researchers, including Schumacher, perhaps even the first language to diverge from Proto-Celtic.^[36] These languages were once spoken in a wide arc from France to Turkey and from Belgium to northern Italy. They are now all extinct.
• Hispano-Celtic; also extinct:^[37][38]
  • Celtiberian, anciently spoken in the Iberian peninsula,^[39] in parts of modern Aragón, Old Castile, and New Castile in Spain.
  • Gallaecian, anciently spoken in north-western Iberia (north-west Spain and northern Portugal). Modern Galician (a Romance language) retains a number of roots from the former Celtic language of the region. ^[40][41]
  • Possibly Lusitanian, from central interior Portugal and western Spain; while its precise classification is unclear, the Indo-European affinity of Lusitanian is not in doubt.
  • Possibly Tartessian, written in a script dated to c. 825 BC, from south-western Iberia (southern Portugal and south-west Spain).^[42][43] The mainstream view, however, treats Tartessian as unclassified, with no obvious external relationship.^[44]
• Goidelic, including the living languages Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx.
• Brythonic, including the living languages Welsh, Breton and Cornish and the extinct languages Cumbric and Pictish though possibly Pictish may be a sister language rather than a daughter of British (Common Brythonic).^[45] Before the arrival of Scotti on the Isle of Man in the 9th century, there may have been a Brythonic language in the Isle of Man.^[46]

Scholarly handling of the Celtic languages has been rather argumentative owing to lack of much primary source data. Some scholars (such as Cowgill 1975; McCone 1991, 1992; and Schrijver 1995) distinguish Continental Celtic and Insular Celtic, arguing that the differences between the Goidelic and Brythonic languages arose after these split off from the Continental Celtic languages. Other scholars (such as Schmidt 1988) distinguish between P-Celtic and Q-Celtic, putting most of the Gaulish and Brythonic languages in the former group and the Goidelic and Celtiberian languages in the latter. The P-Celtic languages (also called Gallo-Brittonic) are sometimes seen (for example by Koch 1992) as a central innovating area as opposed to the more conservative peripheral Q-Celtic languages.

The Breton language is Brythonic, not Gaulish, though there may be some input from the latter.^[47] When the Anglo-Saxons moved into Great Britain, several waves of the native Britons crossed the English Channel and landed in Brittany. They brought with them their Brythonic language, which evolved into Breton – still partially intelligible by modern Welsh and Cornish speakers.

In the P/Q classification schema, the first language to split off from Proto-Celtic was Gaelic. It has characteristics that some scholars see as archaic, but others see as also being in the Brythonic languages (see Schmidt). In the Insular/Continental classification schema, the split of the former into Gaelic and Brythonic is seen as being late.

The distinction of Celtic into these four sub-families most likely occurred about 900 BC according to Gray and Atkinson^[48][49] but, because of estimation uncertainty, it could be any time between 1200 and 800 BC. However, they only considered Gaelic and Brythonic. The controversial paper by Forster and Toth^[50] included Gaulish and put the break-up much earlier at 3200 BC ± 1500 years. They support the Insular Celtic hypothesis. The early Celts were commonly associated with the archaeological Urnfield culture, the Hallstatt culture, and the La Tène culture, though the earlier assumption of association between language and culture is now considered to be less strong.

There are two main competing schemata of categorization. The older schema, argued for by Schmidt (1988) among others, links Gaulish with Brythonic in a P-Celtic node, originally leaving just Goidelic as Q-Celtic. The difference between P and Q languages is the treatment of Proto-Celtic *kʷ, which became *p in the P-Celtic languages but *k in Goidelic. An example is the Proto-Celtic verb root *kʷrin- "to buy", which became pryn- in Welsh but cren- in Old Irish. However, a classification based on a single feature is seen as risky by its critics, particularly as the sound change occurs in other language groups (especially the Osco-Umbrian and Greek).

The other schema, defended for example by McCone (1996), links Goidelic and Brythonic together as an Insular Celtic branch, while Gaulish and Celtiberian are referred to as Continental Celtic. According to this theory, the "P-Celtic" sound change of [kʷ] to [p] occurred independently or areally. The proponents of the Insular Celtic hypothesis point to other shared innovations among Insular Celtic languages, including inflected prepositions, VSO word order, and the lenition of intervocalic [m] to [β̃], a nasalised voiced bilabial fricative (an extremely rare sound). There is, however, no assumption that the Continental Celtic languages descend from a common "Proto-Continental Celtic" ancestor. Rather, in the Insular/Continental schema, Celtiberian is usually considered to be the first branch to split from Proto-Celtic, and the remaining group would later have split into Gaulish and Insular Celtic.

There are legitimate scholarly arguments in favour of both the Insular Celtic hypothesis and the P-Celtic/Q-Celtic hypothesis. Proponents of each schema dispute the accuracy and usefulness of the other's categories. However, since the 1970s the division into Insular and Continental Celtic has become the more widely held view (Cowgill 1975; McCone 1991, 1992; Schrijver 1995), but in the middle of the 1980s, the P-Celtic/Q-Celtic hypothesis found new supporters (Lambert 1994), because of the inscription on the Larzac piece of lead (1983), the analysis of which reveals another common phonetical innovation -nm- > -nu (Gaelic ainm / Gaulish anuana, Old Welsh enuein "names"), that is less accidental than only one. The discovery of a third common innovation, would allow the specialists to come to the conclusion of a Gallo-Brythonic dialect (Schmidt 1986; Fleuriot 1986).

It must be noted that the interpretation of this and further evidence is still quite contested, and the main argument in favour of Insular Celtic is connected with the development of the verbal morphology and the syntax in Irish and British Celtic, which Schumacher regards as convincing, while he considers the P-Celtic/Q-Celtic division unimportant and treats Gallo-Brittonic as an outdated hypothesis.^[36]

When referring only to the modern Celtic languages, since no Continental Celtic language has living descendants, "Q-Celtic" is equivalent to "Goidelic" and "P-Celtic" is equivalent to "Brythonic".

Within the Indo-European family, the Celtic languages have sometimes been placed with the Italic languages in a common Italo-Celtic subfamily, a hypothesis that is now largely discarded, in favour of the assumption of language contact between pre-Celtic and pre-Italic communities.

How the family tree of the Celtic languages is ordered depends on which hypothesis is used:

Insular/Continental hypothesis Proto-Celtic or Common Celtic Continental Celtic Gaulish Lepontic Noric Galatian Celtiberian Gallaecian Tartessian ? [42][43] Insular Celtic Goidelic Primitive Irish Old Irish Middle Irish Irish Scottish Gaelic Manx Brythonic Pictish ? British Cumbric Old Welsh Middle Welsh Welsh Southwestern Brythonic Breton Cornish

P-Celtic/Q-Celtic hypothesis Proto-Celtic or Common Celtic P-Celtic Gaulish Lepontic Noric Galatian Brythonic Cumbric Pictish ? Old Welsh Middle Welsh Welsh Southwestern Brythonic Breton Cornish Q-Celtic Celtiberian Gallaecian Tartessian ? [42][43] Goidelic Primitive Irish Old Irish Middle Irish Irish Scottish Gaelic Manx

Characteristics of Celtic languages

Although there are many differences between the individual Celtic languages, they do show many family resemblances. While none of these characteristics are necessarily unique to the Celtic languages, there are few if any other languages which possess them all. They include:

• consonant mutations (Insular Celtic only)
• inflected prepositions (Insular Celtic only)
• two grammatical genders (modern Insular Celtic only; Old Irish and the Continental languages had three genders)
• a vigesimal number system (counting by twenties)
  • e.g. Cornish whetek ha dew ugens "fifty-six" (literally "sixteen and two twenty")
• verb–subject–object (VSO) word order (probably Insular Celtic only)
• an interplay between the subjunctive, future, imperfect, and habitual, to the point that some tenses and moods have ousted others
• an impersonal or autonomous verb form serving as a passive or intransitive
  • Welsh dysgaf "I teach" vs. dysgir "is taught, one teaches", Irish "déanaim" "I do/make" vs. "déantar" "is done"
• no infinitives, replaced by a quasi-nominal verb form called the verbal noun or verbnoun
• frequent use of vowel mutation as a morphological device, e.g. formation of plurals, verbal stems, etc.
• use of preverbal particles to signal either subordination or illocutionary force of the following clause
  • mutation-distinguished subordinators/relativisers
  • particles for negation, interrogation, and occasionally for affirmative declarations
• infixed pronouns positioned between particles and verbs
• lack of simple verb for the imperfective "have" process, with possession conveyed by a composite structure, usually BE + preposition
  • Cornish yma kath dhymm "I have a cat", literally "there is a cat to me"
• use of periphrastic phrases to express verbal tense, voice, or aspectual distinctions
• distinction by function of the two versions of BE verbs traditionally labelled substantive (or existential) and copula
• bifurcated demonstrative structure
• suffixed pronominal supplements, called confirming or supplementary pronouns
• use of singulars and/or special forms of counted nouns, and use of a singulative suffix to make singular forms from plurals, where older singulars have disappeared

Examples:
(Irish) Ná bac le mac an bhacaigh is ní bhacfaidh mac an bhacaigh leat.
(Literal translation) Don't bother with son the beggar's and not will-bother son the beggar's with-you.

• bhacaigh is the genitive of bacach. The igh the result of affection; the bh is the lenited form of b.
• leat is the second person singular inflected form of the preposition le.
• The order is verb–subject–object (VSO) in the second half. Compare this to English or French (and possibly Continental Celtic) which are normally subject–verb–object in word order.

(Welsh) pedwar ar bymtheg a phedwar ugain
(literally) four on fifteen and four twenties

• bymtheg is a mutated form of pymtheg, which is pump ("five") plus deg ("ten"). Likewise, phedwar is a mutated form of pedwar.
• The multiples of ten are deg, ugain, deg ar hugain, deugain, hanner cant, trigain, deg a thrigain, pedwar ugain, deg a phedwar ugain, cant.

Comparison table

Welsh	Cornish	Breton	Irish	Scottish Gaelic	Manx	English
gwenynen	gwenenen	gwenanenn	beach	seillean, beach	shellan	bee
cadair	kador	kador	cathaoir	cathair	caair	chair
caws	keus	keuz	cáis	càis(e)	caashey	cheese
tu fas, tu allan	yn-mes	er-maez	amuigh	a-muigh	mooie	outside
cwympo	kodha	kouezhañ	tit(im)	tuit(eam)	tuitt(ym)	(to) fall
gafr	gaver	gavr	gabhar	gobhar	goayr	goat
tŷ	chi	ti	teach, tigh	taigh	thie	house
gwefus	gweus	gweuz	liopa	bile, lip	meill	lip (anatomical)
aber	aber	aber	inbhear	inbhir	inver	mouth of a river, estuary
rhif, nifer	niver	niver	uimhir	àireamh	earroo	number
gellygen, peren	peren	perenn	piorra	peur/piar	peear	pear
ysgol	skol	skol	scoil	sgoil	scoill	school
ysmygu	megi	mogediñ	tobac a chaitheamh	smocadh	toghtaney/smookal	(to) smoke
seren	steren	steredenn	réalta	reul	rollage	star
heddiw	hedhyw	hiziv	inniu	an-diugh	jiu	today
chwibanu	hwibana	c'hwibanat	feadaíl	fead	fed	(to) whistle
chwarel	mengleudh	mengleuz	cairéal	coireall, cuaraidh	quarral	quarry
llawn	leun	leun	lán	làn	lane	full
arian	arhans	arc'hant	airgead	airgead	argid	silver
arian	mona, arhans	moneiz	airgead	airgead	argid	money

Examples

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

• Scottish Gaelic: Tha gach uile dhuine air a bhreth saor agus co-ionnan ann an urram 's ann an còirichean. Tha iad air am breth le reusan is le cogais agus mar sin bu chòir dhaibh a bhith beò nam measg fhein ann an spiorad bràthaireil.
• Irish: Saolaítear na daoine uile saor agus comhionann ina ndínit agus ina gcearta. Tá bua an réasúin agus an choinsiasa acu agus dlíd iad féin d'iompar de mheon bráithreachais i leith a chéile.
• Manx: Ta dagh ooilley pheiagh ruggit seyr as corrym ayns ard-cheim as kiartyn. Ren Jee feoiltaghey resoon as cooinsheanse orroo as by chair daue ymmyrkey ry cheilley myr braaraghyn.
• Welsh: Genir pawb yn rhydd ac yn gydradd â'i gilydd mewn urddas a hawliau. Fe'u cynysgaeddir â rheswm a chydwybod, a dylai pawb ymddwyn y naill at y llall mewn ysbryd cymodlon.
• Cornish: Pub den oll yw genys frank ha kehaval yn dynita ha gwiryow. Yth yns i enduys gans reson ha cowses hag y tal dhedhans gwul dhe udn orth y gila yn spyrys a vredereth.
• Breton: Dieub ha par en o dellezegezh hag o gwirioù eo ganet an holl dud. Poell ha skiant zo dezho ha dleout a reont bevañ an eil gant egile en ur spered a genvreudeuriezh.

Notes

See also

• A Swadesh list of the modern Celtic languages
• Language families and languages
• Celtic League (political organisation)
• Celtic Congress
• Hispano-Celtic languages
• Italo-Celtic

References

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