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Welsh is the only Celtic language not classified as endangered by UNESCO. The Cornish and Manx languages became extinct in modern times but have been revived. Each now has several hundred second-language speakers. Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic.
As in the Gaelic-speaking areas, many Welsh (Cymric) patronyms were anglicised by omitting the prefix indicating son of and either exchanging the father's Welsh forename for its English equivalent, or re-spelling it according to English spelling rules, and, either way, most commonly adding -s to the end, so that the such as 'ap Hywell' became ...
More recently, this term has also been adopted as the Gaelic name of the Highland council area, which includes non-Gaelic speaking areas. Hence, more specific terms such as sgìre Ghàidhlig ("Gaelic-speaking area") are now used. [citation needed] In Wales, the Welsh language is a core curriculum (compulsory) subject, which all pupils study. [13]
The various names used since classical times for the people known today as the Celts are of disparate origins.. The names Κελτοί (Keltoí) and Celtae are used in Greek and Latin, respectively, to denote a people of the La Tène horizon in the region of the upper Rhine and Danube during the 6th to 1st centuries BC in Graeco-Roman ethnography.
Southwest Brittonic languages like Breton and Cornish usually generalize the same variant of *wo in a given word while Welsh tends to have its own distribution of variants. The distribution of *wo/wa is also complicated by an Old Breton development where *wo that had not turned to *gwa would split into go(u)- (Old Breton gu- ) in penultimate ...
The terminology discussed in this article relates to an Old Celtic word which can be reconstructed as *wātis. This word is not directly attested, but is inferred from renderings into Greek and Latin and from its descendants in later Celtic languages. Vates in English is a borrowing of a Latin noun vātēs (pronounced [ˈwaːteːs]), "prophet ...
The spelling Ian is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic forename Iain. This name is a popular name in Scotland , where it originated, as well as in other English-speaking countries. The name has fallen out of the top 100 male baby names in the United Kingdom, having peaked in popularity as one of the top 10 names throughout the 1960s. [ 2 ]
The principal Italo-Celtic forms are: the thematic genitive singular in ī (e.g. Latin second declension dominus, gen.sg. dominī).Both in Italic (Popliosio Valesiosio, Lapis Satricanus) and in Celtic (Lepontic-oiso, Celtiberian-o), traces of the -osyo genitive of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) have also been discovered, which might indicate that the spread of the ī genitive occurred in the two ...