Re: Q- and P- Celtic
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 21:04 |
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--- Thomas Leigh <thomas@...>
scrievit:
> > I'm now writing a couple of lines about the
> > evolution of Gaelic, and I was thinking of
> > inserting
> > a hint to the differences between the
> > Goidelic (Q) and
> > Brythonic (P) branches of insular Celtic.
>
> It might be worth pointing out that while many
> people consider
> P-Celtic to be synonymous with Brythonic and
> Q-Celtic to be
> synonymous with Goidelic, this is not the case.
> It is true that
> all the surviving P-Celtic languages are
> Brythonic and all the
> surviving Q-Celtic languages are Goidelic, but
> there used to be
> P-Celtic languages which were not Brythonic,
> and Q-Celtic
> languages which were not Goidelic. In other
> words, Brythonic and
> Goidelic are sub-classes of P-Celtic and
> Q-Celtic, respectively.
Quite. Certainly Gaulish was P; and as I
understand it, Celtiberian was Q. Galatian I
think was P. Keep in mind that Celtic was spoken
all across Europe and into Asia at some point.
Too little is known of most varieties to say much
about them!
And as far as language as a function of being
Scottish is concerned, I hope that Doric and Norn
won't be neglected in the paper!
Padraic.
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