Re: Intro and other

I DONT UNDERSTAND WHO WROTE THIs..but I'm replying anyway.


> > --- In conlang@y..., Joe Hill <joe@W...> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's Frisian, unless you count Scots as a language rather than a
> > dialect.
> > > Then Dutch, then the Norse languages, then French, then German etc.
> >
> > Do you means Scotch Gaelic? There are enough differences between it
> > and Irish Gaelic that I consider them to be different languages (in
> > my amateur opinion.)
> >
> > As for Gaelic being related to English... interesting. I've never
> > noticed the similarity. It would make sense, though; the origins of
> > English should be related to Cornish, Kentish, Welsh, Manx, Scotch,
> > Irish and other languages of the British Isles. The question is,
> > where does Frisian fit in?

Someone does not understand the inner-workings of the language of the British Isles!!

Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic are Goidelic Languages of the Celtic Branch of
PIE. Their relatives are Welsh, Breton, and Cornish (also Cumbric..but we wont
go into that now). These three languages are tthe Brittonic Branch of Celtic.

Now, these were all present in some form in the British Isles from about 500 BC or so (IIRC).

How are these languages related to English? They are simply because English and
Celtic are both Indo-European Languages. However, English is on a totally
different branch. NOT Celtic but Germanic. The Germanic Branhc is thus:

GERMANIC:

 EAST GERMANIC
    Gothic and all the others
 WEST GERMANIC
    LOW
      Dutch
      Frisian
      English
      and others
    HIGH
      German
      and probably others
 NORTH GERMANIC
     INSULAR
       Icelandic
       Faeroese
     CONTINENTAL
       Scandinavian Dialects
       (such as: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish)


So, basically, English is not related directly to Celtic Languages, but is related
simply due to the fact that it is Indo-European. The Roots of words and some
basic grammar points are the cognate.

Ellott