This section contains a collection of information, vocabulary, grammar and other details of the Celtic languages which are available on this site, and elsewhere.
Breton, Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Celtiberian, Gaulish, Lepontic, Lusitanian, Tartessian
The six Celtic languages currently spoken are divided into two ranches: Goidelic, and Brythonic. The former branch consists of Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic, while the latter branch includes Welsh, Cornish and Breton. While there are many similarities between the languages in each branch, there are fewer similiarities between the two branches as they have had thousands of years to grow apart. However, they do still have quite a few words that are related (cognates).
Complete Cognates, Partial Cognates . Cognates arranged thematically: Adjectives | Animals | Birds | Clothes | Colours | Conjunctions | Countries | Directions | Food and Drink | Landscape | Buildings | Languages | Metals | Musical terms | Numbers | Parts of the body | People | Pronouns | Prepositions | Sea creatures | Time expressions | Trees and Plants | Verbs | Weather | Tools | Other words | Names
The Celtiadur blog is a collection of Celtic cognates, with definitions, pronunciation, etymologies - includes the modern Celtic languages, older versions of these languages, such as Middle Welsh, Middle Breton and Old Irish, and their extinct and reconstructed relatives and ancestors, including Gaulish, Proto-Brythonic and Proto-Celtic.
On the Celtic Pathways podcast I discuss connections between the Celtic languages, and look for words with Celtic roots in non-Celtic languages, such as English, French, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Celtic_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_Celtic_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittonic_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goidelic_languages
http://elalliance.org/languages/celtic/
I am not a native speaker of any of these languages, but have been studying them, on and off, for quite a few years. I speak Welsh and Irish more or less fluently, can get by in Scottish Gaelic and Manx, and have a basic knowledge of Cornish and Breton.
By putting this information together here, my aim is to improve my knowledge of these languages and to share that knowledge with others. If you have corrections, questions or suggestions, please contact me.
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