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    Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish (Irish: Gaeilge Ársa, Gaeilge Chianach), also called Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages...
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    Ogham (redirect from Ogham Irish language)
    In Ireland and in Wales, the language of the monumental stone inscriptions is termed Primitive Irish. The transition to Old Irish, the language of the...
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    (Northern Ireland) Act 2022. The earliest linguistic records in Ireland are of Primitive Irish, from about the 17th century BCE. Languages spoken in Iron...
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  • Old Irish is the ancestor of all modern Goidelic languages: Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. A still older form of Irish is known as Primitive Irish...
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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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  • boldfaced). The following are some examples of changes between Primitive Irish and Old Irish. These various changes, especially syncope, produced quite complex...
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  • Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Primitive Irish language inscriptions as codified in the Ogham script. The following Unicode-related...
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    to represent a Primitive Irish: *Qatrikias, although this is disputed. Harvey argues that Cothraige "has the form of a classic Old Irish tribal (and therefore...
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  • Balto-Slavic. The earliest written form of the Irish language is known to linguists as Primitive Irish. Primitive Irish is known only from fragments, mostly personal...
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  • Lenition (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    resulted in Proto-Celtic *toutā, Primitive Irish *tōθā, Old Irish túath /t̪ʰuaθ/ and ultimately debuccalisation in most Irish and some Scottish dialects to...
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  • Eógan (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    an early Irish male given name, which also has the hypocoristic and diminutive forms Eoganán, Eóghainin, Eóghain and Eóghainn. The Modern Irish form of...
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    See media help. Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic (/ˈɡeɪlɪk/ GAY-lik), is a Goidelic language of the Insular...
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    Kingdom of Gwynedd (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    Irish (reflective of Irish settlement in the area in antiquity), either cognate with the Old Irish ethnic name Féni, "Irish People", from Primitive Irish...
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  • Domangart Réti (category 6th-century Irish monarchs)
    the form Corcu Réti, perhaps a synonym for Dál Riata. Corcu, a Primitive Irish language term for a kin group, usually combined with the name of a divine...
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  • follows Primitive Irish Old Irish Middle Irish Modern Irish Scottish Gaelic Manx During the historical era, Goidelic was restricted to Ireland and, possibly...
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  • Éogan of Ardstraw (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    early Irish male name, derived from the Primitive Irish *Iwagenas, and equates to the Welsh Owain and the Latin Eugene. In more modern forms of Irish it...
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    from what is now Northern Ireland are of Primitive Irish, from about the 5th century AD. Languages spoken in Iron Age Ireland before then are now irretrievable...
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  • non-Indo-European origin in other Celtic languages as well; therefore, the substrate may not have been in contact with Primitive Irish but rather with Proto-Celtic...
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  • (2009). "Marx on Primitive Communism: The Irish Rundale Agrarian Commune, its internal Dynamics and the Metabolic Rift" (PDF). Irish Journal of Anthropology...
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  • the term refers to the language of the oldest known significant texts. Each of these languages has an older stage (Primitive Irish and Proto-Norse respectively)...
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    Stele (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    erected at hundreds of sites in Ireland throughout the first millennium AD, bearing inscriptions in the Primitive Irish language. They have occasionally been...
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    immigration by Irish speakers, chiefly from counties Waterford, Tipperary and Cork. Local place names in the Irish language include Newfoundland (Irish: Talamh...
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    Scots Brythonic languages Western Brittonic languages Welsh Southwestern Brittonic languages Cornish Goidelic languages Irish Ulster Irish Scottish Gaelic...
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    Gaels (redirect from Native Irish)
    Gaelic languages: a branch of the Celtic languages comprising Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. Gaelic language and culture originated in Ireland, extending...
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  • Irish, also called Middle Gaelic (Irish: An Mheán-Ghaeilge, Scottish Gaelic: Meadhan-Ghàidhlig), is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland...
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    Ballaqueeney Ogham Stone (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    D. McManus notes that the tribal name Cunavali could refer to either an Irish or a British tribe. "Knock y Doonee Ogham Stone". iMuseum. Manx National...
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  • Gaelic (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    Gaelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, including: Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish, the oldest...
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    the island at that time. The basis of the modern Manx language is Primitive Irish (like modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic). The island either lends its name...
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    Breastagh Ogham Stone (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    (CIIC 010) is an ogham stone and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland. Breastagh Ogham Stone stands in a field 4.2 km (2.6 mi) north-northwest...
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    Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-73650-3. "Irish Examiner - 2004/11/24: EU grants Irish official language status". Irish Examiner...
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