Have a copy of a beautifully photographed book on Lewis & Harris by Francis Thompson. He writes a section the Gaelic language describing the people of the islands as living depositories of an ancient history - the Gaelic language and its attendant culture. As a little sub-note headed 'A Language Family' he writes the following text:
Gaelic is a member of the Celtic group of languages; they, in turn constitute of the Indo-European family of languages. Thus Gaelic is a cousin to Latin, English, Russian and Urdu. The present day Celtic languages are Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, Manx and Cornish, though the latter died out but has since been revived.
Other Celtic languages once existed in Europe, such as Gaulish in what is now France, but are now long since extinct. These tongues spread far and over Europe some two thousand years ago and exist only in place-names and loan-words.
The origins of language is a fascinating subject, would love to learn more ...
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11th April 2013ce
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