Celtic languages
Let an agent explain the Celtic languages, relay classification debates, history, status and revitalisation from linguistics sources with attribution, describe the groupings the registry aliases name, and distinguish Celtic languages from Celtic culture generally, Italo-Celtic as a hypothesis and English dialects influenced by Celtic.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the Celtic languages, relay classification debates, history, status and revitalisation from linguistics sources with attribution, describe the groupings the registry aliases name, and distinguish Celtic languages from Celtic culture generally, Italo-Celtic as a hypothesis and English dialects influenced by Celtic.
A branch of the Indo-European language family comprising Insular Celtic languages, the Goidelic Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx and the Brittonic Welsh, Breton and Cornish, and extinct Continental Celtic languages such as Gaulish, Celtiberian, Lepontic and Cisalpine Gaulish, together called Cisalpine Celtic in Italy, and Galatian; languages are also classified as P-Celtic or Q-Celtic by the development of Proto-Indo-European kw, a scheme debated against the Insular-Continental grouping, and scarcely attested languages such as that of the Cantabri are of uncertain Celtic status. Several Celtic languages are endangered and subject to revitalisation.
What it is for: Communication among speakers; a language family branch.
It can be explain classification with attribution; relay history and status; describe named groupings; distinguish related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Initial consonant mutations
Verb-subject-object order in Insular languages
Endangered status
Classification debates
What it looks like
Not a visible object; spoken and written languages, some once written in ogham.
Physical character
living languages: 6 count - Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, Cornish, the last two Manx and Cornish revived
Welsh speakers: about 540000 people - 2021 census, aged 3+
Lepontic inscriptions: from about 6th century BC note
How it is recognised
Celtic branch of Indo-European
Q-Celtic, Insular Celtic, Continental Celtic, P-Celtic, Cantabrian, Cisalpine Celtic
Celtic culture is broader than language; Italo-Celtic is a debated grouping; Hiberno-English is English
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
includes -
includes -
is related to - hypothesis
In practice
Families and kinds
Goidelic languages
Brittonic languages
Continental Celtic languages
P-Celtic and Q-Celtic groupings
revived languages such as Cornish and Manx
Standards and regulation
Welsh Language Act and Measure
Official Languages Act 2003 in Ireland
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting one classification as settled
Overstating Celtic status of poorly attested languages
Romanticising or politicising language revival
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What the Celtic languages are.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What are the Celtic languages, and how do they differ from Celtic culture, Italo-Celtic and Celtic-influenced English? definition
- Is the question about a specific language, history, learning or revitalisation? boundary
Groupings
Named groupings.
Groupings
Groupings.
- What are Q-Celtic, P-Celtic, Insular, Continental and Cisalpine Celtic, and what is known of Cantabrian? definition
- Which entry fits the specific grouping? action
Linguistics Classification.
Attribution.
Debate
Classification debate.
Debate
Debate.
- How do the Insular Celtic and P/Q-Celtic hypotheses differ, with scholars attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Features
Features.
Features
Features.
- What features such as mutations and inflected prepositions characterise Celtic languages? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Status Status and revival.
Regulation.
Status
Official status.
Status
Status.
- What legal status do Celtic languages have today? provenance
- Which entry fits Welsh Language Commissioner? action
Revival
Revitalisation.
Revival
Revival.
- How have Cornish and Manx been revived, and how is Irish and Breton education organised? provenance
- Which entry fits language revitalization? action
Context History.
Context.
Ancient
Ancient Celtic.
Ancient
Ancient.
- What do inscriptions tell us about Gaulish, Lepontic and Celtiberian? provenance
- Which entry fits Gaulish language? action
Ogham
Ogham.
Ogham
Ogham.
- What is ogham, and what do the inscriptions record? provenance
- Which entry fits ogham? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should the Cantabrian alias be flagged as uncertain Celtic?
- How should linguistics sources be linked?
- How should speaker numbers be kept current?