Re: `oñga`arl'- The pre-Celtic Language
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 25, 2000, 2:27 |
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Dan Jones wrote:
> Surely we call them Celts because they spoke a Celtic language, from
> which we get Welsh, Cornish and Breton?
But those languages weren't called Celtic until the people came to be
seen as Celtic. The argument made was that those languages are *not* on
the same branch of IE. I don't know enough about the debate to take a
stand one way or the other.
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