The Celtic Languages

Book Overview

Six modern Celtic languages are described in this volume. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community languages. The other two, Manx and Cornish, survived into the modern period, but are no longer extant as community languages, though they are the subject of enthusiastic revivals. The Celtic Languages sets them briefly in their Indo-European context, and states their general relationships within the broader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521088917
• ISBN13: 9780521088916
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"