Re: Celtic languages?

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>>On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 04:58 , Joe wrote:
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>>>But the thing showing it as Q-celtic was
>>>the '-cue' ending.  Gaulish, AFAIK, has '-pe'.
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>>Only if there is sufficient evidence to link it with the IE languages of
>>Gaul, Britain & Ireland. It could, for example, be cognate with the
>>Etruscan -c (and) and, despite the efforts of many, that languages resists
>>all credible attempts to connect with IE or, indeed, any other known
>>linguistic group.
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>Some people consider it likely that Etruscan is related to IE, but
>apart from the fact that the evidence is too tenuous, if "Celtiberian"
>is most closely related to Etruscan, it is definitely not "Celtic"
>in any linguistically meaningful sense of the word - even if Etruscan
>was related to IE.
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Indeed.  Celtiberian is quite patently IE, Celtic(removes /p/, most
prominently, among other things), and Q-Celtic(/k_w/ does not > /p/).

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