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Gaelic: the language of Eden?

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tk421 Apr 12, 2013 14:12:50
Replying to Astralcat

Hello

I'm not completely sure about this but I remember reading somewhere about the link that can be shown between Gaelic/Gallic and other Indo-European languages through the roots of certain words. I think they went back to the sanskrit roots though I'm not sure about that.

From memory the only word that springs to mind is the word for king in different Irish Latin and the word used in India:
ri/rex/raj.

I think that the underlying reason was that Gaelic/Gallic was at an extreme geographical end of the territory of Indo-European languages so had perhaps not evolved or mixed with other languages or developed beyond its roots as much as other languages might have.

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tiompan Apr 12, 2013 14:47:47
Replying to tk421

tk421 wrote:
Hello

I'm not completely sure about this but I remember reading somewhere about the link that can be shown between Gaelic/Gallic and other Indo-European languages through the roots of certain words. I think they went back to the sanskrit roots though I'm not sure about that.

From memory the only word that springs to mind is the word for king in different Irish Latin and the word used in India:
ri/rex/raj.

I think that the underlying reason was that Gaelic/Gallic was at an extreme geographical end of the territory of Indo-European languages so had perhaps not evolved or mixed with other languages or developed beyond its roots as much as other languages might have.

Mallory in the recent "origins of the irish " suggsts that irish gaelic could be even more recent than 1500 bc .
Tartessian is considerd to be the oldest "celtic " language at 700 bc .
Sanskrit is thought to be no earlier than 2000 bc . PIE is believed to have split by 2500 bc with a possible start date around 4000 bc .

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