CELTIC LANGUAGES

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The Celtic languages are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family.

Irish (Gaeilge), Manx (Gaelg ), and Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh (Cymraeg ), Cornish (Kernowek), and Breton (Brezhoneg) are Brittonic. All of these are Insular Celtic languages, since Breton, the only living Celtic language spoken in continental Europe, is descended from the language of settlers from Britain. There are a number of extinct but attested continental Celtic languages, such as Celtiberian, Galatian, and Gaulish. Beyond that, there is no agreement on the subdivisions of the Celtic language family. They may be divided into P-Celtic and Q-Celtic.

Ethnologue lists six living Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers. These are the Goidelic languages (Irish and Scottish Gaelic, both descended from Middle Irish) and the Brittonic languages (Welsh and Breton, both descended from Common Brittonic).

The other two, Cornish (Brittonic) and Manx (Goidelic), died out in modern times with their presumed last native speakers in 1777 and 1974 respectively. For both these languages, however, revitalization movements have led to the adoption of these languages by adults and children and produced some native speakers.

Taken together, roughly one million native speakers of Celtic languages as of the 2000s. In 2010, there were more than 1.4 million speakers of Celtic languages.

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[Fay]

As a SEAsian that is currently learning a Celtic language, it warms my heart when you did the intros in all the languages. And your Gàidhlig pronunciation is spot on. 🥰

[xxmisty_rosexx]

Good to know that English is not the only language in the UK, and that all countries have their own cultures. Thanks Andy! 🌍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

[aaronmarks]

Few people know that some of the Celtic languages made it to the Americas! In Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, there is a community of Scottish Gaels. While the language dwindled during the 20th century, a revival is now underway. Likewise, in Chubut Province, Argentina, there is a colony of Welsh who arrived in the 19th century - their region is called Y Wladfa, and Welsh is still spoken among them.
In addition, many of the 18th and 19th century immigrants to the Americas from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Man, and Brittany were speakers of their native Celtic tongues, until they assimilated to the local English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese of their new country.

[crystalpink]

Celtic languages are so amazing
The british and french accents are so cool

[johnmackenreillytag]

Físeán den scoth! Go raibh maith agat as tuilleadh airde a tharraingt ar na teangacha Ceilteacha! 🇮🇪 💚

[hotcocoandart]

Kinda hilarious that three seems to have stayed the same across the entire family of languages

[hnjgaiszru]

Andy, perkenalan dirimu di setiap awal video pake macem-macem bahasa yang terkait sama tiap video (terutama di video ini) mantep banget dah. Apalagi bahasa-bahasa Goidelik (Keltik Q) yang pengucapannya bisa dibilang lumayan susah logikanya, luar biasa. Uploadmu yang rajin banget akhir-akhir ini juga keren maksimal, dedikasimu luar biasa. Semangat terus kawan, istirahat jangan lupa yaa!!! 😁😁😁✨

[yohannamyot]

Breton speaker here, your pronunciation is quite good ! Just for information, we have four (and more but four major) dialects in Breton : Kerneveg, Leoneg, Tregerieg. We also have the beautiful Gwenedeg which is quite different from the other three ones (for lots of reasons). There is also the Breton from Nantes (Naoned), and the Goëlo Breton which is spoken near Paimpol (Pempoull). The Breton Andy uses here is the kind of Breton from the three first dialects, also called KLT to make it short.

[neilr]

Thank you!, I’m a welsh speaker and surprised how similar Breton was.. really interesting to see the similarities

[aLaMode]

Probably my favorite language family. All 6 of them are so beautiful.

[Frilouz]

Note that some of these languages have different forms, at least for 2, 3 and 4, for feminine nouns.
For example in Breton: div, teir, peder.
The forms presented here are for masculine nouns.

[kasikasivendjinn]

Andy, I love how cute your voice sound across any language.

[darshanpatel.]

The consistency! I'm flabbergasted!

[colmtierney]

The number 4 really shows how the languages have a common ancestor with the main sound difference being the Q-sound at the beginning of the Goidelic languages and P-sound in the Byrthonic languages, as you mentioned earlier.

[TimothyFolkema]

There’s over 500 speakers of Kernewek :-)
Lots of music, too. For example, Gwenno has Cornish and Welsh parents and makes psych-pop in both languages :-)
Kernow bys vyken!

[polluxxxx]

Hey Andy! I don’t know if you remember me; but i was the one that made the Celtic language vídeo suggestion! I just wanted to say thank you, and have a great day/evening/night!! ☺️

[TheOlgaSasha]

I am surprised how Celtic numbers are close to Slavic ones. They are even closer than neighbouring to us Germanic and Romance numbers.
In modern Ukrainian (and in old Slavic):
1-odín (edan)
2-dva (dva)
3-trí (tri)
4-čotyry (cetire)
5-pyať (pec)
6-šisť (sesc)
7-sim (sedm)
8-visim (osm)
9-devyať (devec)
10-deśať (desec)

[xosga]

I am learning Welsh and a little Irish!. I love them but find them soooo difficult to learn. But i like challenges🙂🦾

[ggarzagarcia]

Awesome video!
You probably have been asked this: where are you from?
Your linguistic skills have been praised by many. Keep up the good work.

[florinparlo]

Nice Video Andy! You're a good teacher!