Re: Okay, so it *didn't* work

If you scratch the surface, it's pretty
Celtic.  Initial mutations, verbal nouns,
preverbal particles, definitely Brythonic
vocabulary.  If you listen to it, it has
some of the nasal sonorities of French.

Remember that Manx, Irish Gaelic, and
Scots Gaelic are of the Goidelic (q-Celtic)
branch, and differ fairly considerably from
their southern neighbors, the Brythonic
(or p-Celtic) branch.  Breton is a dialect
developed from the Britons who fled to
the continent in their escape from invading
Saxons, so its affinity with Cornish and
Welsh (the p-Celtic languages) is much
stronger.  But I'm sure it's picked up a lot
of French vocabulary in the same way that
Welsh picked up a lot of English: plismon,
for "police man," lico, for "like," etc.  <G>

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>

> BTW Breton looks so cool!  It hardly looks Celtic
> (though I don't know what Manx and suchlike look
> like); can anyone enlighten me as to why?  I always
> think it interesting the influences one language has
> on another; egs Romanian, a Romantic language, picks
> up some of the feel of its Slavic neighbours, just
> like Finnish, a Finno-Ugric language, has a
> Scandinavian influence.
>
> Emesohaleka Yawehi,
> Kalinida
>
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