SC - Any comments?

[Sabia]

The two branches are known as P and Q celtic, or Brythonic and Goedelic. 
As far as I understand, the Bretons are Cornish in origin, having 
emigrated in about the 5th or 6th century AD (didn't get on with Arthur 
or something :) Welsh, Cornish, and Breton are all realated more recently 
than Welsh and Irish. The word welsh comes from wealh - an anglo-saxon 
word for foreigner. There wre also, for a while, the 'Strathclyde welsh' 
- - britons in the north west, but the anglo-saxons beat them back. See the 
poem 'the gododdin'. Then of course there are the picts... (and the manx, 
and...

Charles Ragnar


On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Varju wrote:

> In a message dated 98-01-05 19:22:37 EST, you write:
> 
> << Wales is Cymru, and the language is Cymeric (if I remember the spellings
>  correctly), not Gaelic.  >>
> 
> 
> They are from the same language group,  Welsh is from an earlier branch than
> Irish or Scottish.  As for Cornish and Breton, they fall into the same
> language group, Cornish being about the same time as Welsh, and Breton being
> much earlier.  If I remember right, the Irish, Welsh and Cornish were all
> decendants of the original Celtic settlers in the region, but their languages
> diverged after arrival due to distance.  Scottish gaelic is decended from
> Irish, because the Scots were Irish settlers in Hibernia.  Breton is
> considered to be the oldest branch of the Celtic language group.  (The Breton
> love this because it allows them to keep from being absorbed by the French.)
> 
> My memory of the details is a bit hazy, but that is the gist of what i learned
> in linguistics all those years ago.
> 
> 
> Noemi
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