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What language is similar to Welsh?

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Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg [k?mˈrai?g, ? g?mˈrai?g] ( listen)) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages. It is spoken natively in Wales, by few in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina).

Moreover, is Gaelic Germanic?

Irish is a Celtic language (as English is a Germanic language, French a Romance language, and so on). This means that it is a member of the Celtic family of languages. Its “sister” languages are Scottish Gaelic and Manx (Isle of Man); its more distant “cousins” are Welsh, Breton and Cornish.

What languages do they speak in Ireland?

English

Irish

Hiberno-English

How old is the Irish language?

Irish is a Celtic language, as is Scottish Gaelic, Manx Gaelic (Manx), Welsh, Breton and Cornish. The Gaelic languages come from Old Irish and the other three Celtic languages come from British. There were other Celtic languages spoken on the European Mainland, but they died out around 1,500 years ago.

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Is the Welsh language older than the English language?

1. Welsh is not one of the oldest languages in Europe, nor is it any older than English. True, Welsh (and Cornish and Breton) come from the Brythonic language, which existed in Britain before Anglo-Saxon arrived, but that doesn't make Welsh older than English.

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Which other countries speak Welsh?

The only natural communities of speakers are in that part of Britain which is called Wales, and a small colony in Patagonia (in the Chubut province of Argentina), although there are many speakers of Welsh elsewhere, particularly in England and Australia and the United States of America.

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Is Welsh language different from English?

Welsh is its own separate language that is spoken in Wales, there is a Welsh dialect of English, but Welsh is a language in its own right. A totally distinct language in the Celtic family. However, there is also a characteristic Welsh form of English.

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Is Welsh a hard language to learn?

No, but it's a very different language to English. Most English speakers who try to master a second language usually pick or are taught one which has something in common with their own, such as German, or French. Welsh is as easy and as difficult to learn as any other language.

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Is the Welsh language dying?

Then, a few days later, a new report said what we all know already, that the language spoken by just 19 per cent of the Welsh population is dying. Among Welsh speakers aged 16 to 24, half consider themselves fluent and only a third use Welsh with friends. It's not just outsiders who don't speak Welsh.

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Are Irish and Gaelic the same thing?

The Irish language is the Celtic language of Ireland (the same one as “Irish Gaelic”). Irish people generally refer to the language of Ireland simply as “Irish“. “Gaeilge” is the name for Irish in the Irish language. Gaeilge is the word where the English language word “Gaelic” is derived from.

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Is Welsh still spoken?

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg [k?mˈrai?g, ? g?mˈrai?g] ( listen)) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages. It is spoken natively in Wales, by few in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina).

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Is Wales in the England?

England and Wales (Welsh: Cymru a Lloegr) is a legal jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom. "England and Wales" forms the constitutional successor to the former Kingdom of England and follows a single legal system, known as English law.

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What is the origin of the Welsh language?

Origins. Welsh evolved from British, the Celtic language spoken by the ancient Britons. Alternatively classified as Insular Celtic or P-Celtic, it probably arrived in Britain during the Bronze Age or Iron Age and was probably spoken throughout the island south of the Firth of Forth.

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Is Breton still spoken?

The other principal minority language of Brittany is Gallo; Gallo is spoken only in Upper Brittany, where Breton is less dominant. Currently, most Bretons' native language is standard French. Brittany and its people are counted as one of the six Celtic nations.

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Where did the Celtic people come from?

Many people still refer to Irish, Scottish, and Welsh as Celtic culture. The assumption has been that they were Celts who migrated from central Europe around 500BCE. Keltoi was the name given by the Ancient Greeks to a 'barbaric' (in their eyes) people who lived to the north of them in central Europe.

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Who invented the French language?

It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.

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How old is the Celtic language?

Irish is a Celtic language, as is Scottish Gaelic, Manx Gaelic (Manx), Welsh, Breton and Cornish. The Gaelic languages come from Old Irish and the other three Celtic languages come from British. There were other Celtic languages spoken on the European Mainland, but they died out around 1,500 years ago.

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Is Wales is a part of England?

Politically, both England and Wales are part of the United Kingdom, as are Scotland and Northern Ireland. Geographically, both England and Wales are part of Great Britain, as is Scotland (but not Northern Ireland). Together they form the island of Great Britain that is part of the British Isles.

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Is Celtic a dead language?

The Insular Celtic languages are mostly those spoken on the islands of Britain, Ireland, Man, and part of France. The Insular languages belong to one of two branches, the Goidelic and the Brythonic. The Goidelic languages are Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx. Manx is a form of Gaelic spoken on the Isle of Man.

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Is Welsh English?

Welsh English refers to the dialects of English spoken by Welsh people. The dialects are significantly influenced by Welsh grammar and often include words derived from Welsh.

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Are Celtic and Gaelic the same thing?

Celtic is subgroup of the Indo-European language family. Gaelic is a language belonging to this group. To be more precise, Gaelic actually refers to a group of three close related Insular Celtic languages: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx. The word Celtic is derived from the Greek word describing them.

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What language is closest to Gaelic?

In Europe the language is usually referred to as Irish, with Gaelic or Irish Gaelic used in some instances elsewhere. The term Irish Gaelic is often used when English speakers discuss the relationship between the three Goidelic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx).

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Is Gaelic still a spoken language?

Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge nah Eireann) is a Celtic language spoken by 138,000 people as a first language, and by another 1,000,000 people as a second language in Ireland with 276,000 first-language speakers worldwide (Ethnologue).The language is sometimes referred to as Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, or Erse, but in Ireland it is

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Can Irish and Scottish Gaelic understand each other?

Generally speaking, though, most Irish speakers can't understand much Scottish Gaelic, and vice versa. As the two languages have grown apart, each has kept some sounds, lost some sounds, and morphed some sounds, resulting in languages that sound very much alike but are, for the most part, mutually unintelligible.

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