Re: Celtic/Germanic

> Re: who is Celtic and who Germanic:
>
> From the little I know of Celtic languages, with respect to "style"
> they fit the stereotypical description of things Celtic:

Extravagant,

> when not downright suppletive then extremely complicated paradigms,

a

> typical elite language, that it would take a lifetime to learn
> properly (and I am pretty sure a good deal of the decade-long
> education of druids included Pan.nini-like rules learnt by heart),
> the kind of language students flee from at school, if they have any
> other interest than language for language's sake. And also
> diversified - each Celtic tribe would have a linguistic axe to

grind

> with the neighbor tribe. Compare that to early Germanic which
> compared to some rival IE languages looks like a simplified trade
> language - a creole. The result is that if Celtic tribes are
> displaced and in contact with as yet unknown to them other Celtic
> tribes, they will try Germanic, much as Europeans today will use
> English on vacation, no matter where.
> If this were the case, it would be difficult for Roman writers to
> distinguish which tribe was Celtic and which Germanic, and so it

was.

>
> Just a thought.
>
> Torsten

This is about the way I see it too

thats one reason Celt was replaced by German in Germany


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