• 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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    the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic. It comprises the extant languages Breton, Cornish, and Welsh. The name Brythonic...
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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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  • distinct groups: Insular Celtic languages Brittonic (or Brythonic) languages Breton Cornish Welsh Goidelic languages Irish Manx Scottish Gaelic The Insular...
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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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  • 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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    the language of Adam. Nicholas Wolf writes that 19th-century Irish language speakers and publications will claim Irish (or some Goidelic language) is...
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    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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    GAY-lik), is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish...
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    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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  • Gaelic (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    may refer to: Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, including: Primitive...
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  • 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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  • "P-Celtic"). These innovations are not shared with the Goidelic languages. The shared innovations not in Goidelic are: Proto-Celtic kʷ > Gallo-Brittonic p, or in...
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  • Vocative case (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
    Indo-European languages (English, Spanish, etc.) have lost the vocative case, but others retain it, including the Baltic languages, some Celtic languages and most...
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  • Debuccalization (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    Debuccalization also occurs in other Volta-Niger languages, including Igbo, the Ayere-Ahan languages, and the Edo Debuccalization can be a feature of...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • English. 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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    Celtic languages: Ancient Celtic religion (known primarily through archaeological sources rather than through written mythology) mythology in Goidelic languages...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • (Irish: An Mheán-Ghaeilge, Scottish Gaelic: Meadhan-Ghàidhlig), is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, most of Scotland and the Isle of Man...
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  • inflected language with three grammatical genders and four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Faroese language conflict Goidelic languages Gøtudanskt...
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