Hi,
Gerry:
Gaelic, Scots-Gaelic, and Manx form the Goidelic branch of the
Celtic language family. Welsh, Breton, and Cornish form the Brythonic
branch of the Celtic language family. Celtic, is a branch of the
Indo-European language family, as are Germanic, Italic, Slavic, Baltic,
Indo-Aryan, Iranic, Tocharian, Hellenic, etc. Indo-European is a branch
of the proposed Nostratic macro-family. So, in answer to your
question below, generally speaking, people who speak Gaelic are
Celts.
Hope
this helps:
Andy
Howey
If Gaelic is a Celtic
language, then are Gaelic speaking people Celts?
Gerry
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Original Message -----
From: <ehlsmith@...>
To: "Gerry"
<waluk@...>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:41
AM
Subject: English & Gaelic [was Re: Swedish?]
> --- In
Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:
> > You
mean that British is actually southern Celtic? Am I
> misinformed
about Irish folks speaking Celtic? Then what do the
> Irish
speak? Gaelic?
>
> Gerry,
>
> From http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELI/sa/thesis3.html
-
> "The English language was imposed upon the Gaelic speaking
populace
> of Ireland over a span of 700 years. The most
important period
> insofar as the dissemination of the language was
concerned was the
> mid-seventeenth century, which saw colonisation of
Ulster by British
> immigrants and the (relatively) rapid spread of
English through the
> country. Today, only about 2% of the population
use Gaelic on a
> regular basis."
>
> Gaelic is a Celtic
language.
>
> Ned Smith
>
>
>
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