Re: Cimbri Name = the thieves

Some dialects of English still have /ü/: in parts of
Appalachia and some dialects of Scotland; I'd think
most dialects of English have /ö/
But I ask if Celtic languages have these sounds. I
don't think Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish have /ü/ and I
don't know about /ö/


--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > http://www.davidkfaux.org/Cimbri-Chronology.pdf
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri
> > Perhaps one ought to add a sixth 'possiblity' in
> the latter article,
> > like this:
> > 6) The Cimbri were Celtic-speaking like most of
> Northern Europe at the
> > time; the Germanic language arrived from the east
> into the later
> > Germania only around 50 - 1 BCE.
>
> BTW there's the old observation that the +high,
> +round vowels [ü, ö
> ..] are found only in languages spoken in previously
> Celtic-speaking
> areas: English (formerly), Dutch, French, German;
> but North Germanic
> has those vowels too.
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>
>

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