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Emrys

(8,626 posts)

9. No. Both Welsh and Gaelic (Scots and Irish, along with Manx) are derived from Proto-Celtic,

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 09:04 PM

Oct 2022

but they're in different branches. Welsh, Breton and Cornish are p-Celtic languages, and the Gaelic strands are q-Celtic.

I can, with a bit of a struggle, sort of understand Breton, Cornish seems fairly familiar, but the Gaelics are not at all similar, though there are a few words that Welsh and they have in common.