The Celtic Languages 11

The Celtic languages are a language family spoken across the western coast of Britain and Ireland and Brittany. It is a small, close to extinction language family as English is taking it over. It includes Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Breton. How are they similar? How are they unique?

They all typically have a large vowel and consonant inventory typically with a nonsensical way of spelling. E.G. caoimhe is pronounced "kee-vah". They typically have a VSO (verb-subject-object) or SVO (subject-verb-object) word order. Adjectives typically come after the noun and prepositions are generally used. They pronouns look generally like this:

mise / fi = I
sinn / ni = we
tu(sa) / chi = you
sibhse = you (plural)
(s)e(f) = he
[s|h]i = she
(f)e = it
iad / nhw = they

The Celtic languages typically have a different word for plural nouns. Here is a side note: when I translate to Welsh on my computer, my browser almost always crashes because of how many hundreds of synonyms it has. In example, here are all the ways to say "walk" in Welsh:

Nevermind, my browser crashed trying to translate that ONE WORD but there was like, a thousand different ways to say it. The Celtic languages are hard to study, either because of their extreme complexity or my browser crashing over and over again because of how many different words for basic concepts Welsh has. According to google, Welsh has thousands of possible ways to say the word "walk" by combining different roots to say different types of walking which is actually kind of cool. So you just "build" your own word based on how exactly you want to say it happened is my impression. Welsh has roughly 60 different variations of the word "speak" and 70-80 different variations of the word "eat".
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 -- Comment by Vikenait Productions : Date: 6-25-2026;