Skrivet gant Ray Brown:
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> A sprachbund might explain the shift to SVO, similae development of def.
> article and the development of wide use of periphrastic verbs (English to
> quite a degree shares the latter develoment). The mutation system of the
> Gaelic langs is IMO different from that of the Brittonic langs (the
> latter
> are far closer to sound changes going on in western Romance).
>
> Ray
I am not sure, but tha might not be a coincidence. Western Britain was
a part of the Roman Empire and all brythonic languages have extensively
borrowed from Latin. A phonetic influence is not imposible.