CELTIC LANGUAGES

[@Fay65]

As a SEAsian that is currently learning a Celtic language, it warms my heart when you did the intros in all the languages. And your Gàidhlig pronunciation is spot on. 🥰

[@andrewjennings7306]

A bheil sibh ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig?

[@Fay65]

@@andrewjennings7306 Tha. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig a-nis.

[@jackwimmer2249]

@@Fay65 cool! I find Celtic languages fascinating! I even have a Welsh-English dictionary, as well as a Gaelic-English Dictionary!

[@Fay65]

@Cal Hàlo! Saya dari Malaysia. Saya tengah belajar bahasa Gaelik Scotland sekarang.

[@autumnphillips151]

@@jackwimmer2249 Is your Gaelic dictionary Gàidhlig, Gaeilge, or Gaelg/Gailck? Or some combination of the three?

[@aaronmarks9366]

Few people know that some of the Celtic languages made it to the Americas! In Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, there is a community of Scottish Gaels. While the language dwindled during the 20th century, a revival is now underway. Likewise, in Chubut Province, Argentina, there is a colony of Welsh who arrived in the 19th century - their region is called Y Wladfa, and Welsh is still spoken among them. In addition, many of the 18th and 19th century immigrants to the Americas from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Man, and Brittany were speakers of their native Celtic tongues, until they assimilated to the local English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese of their new country.

[@L1M.L4M]

Yea

[@vyktorzhuravlev8304]

North American Indians, like the Celts, are Slavs, so it's not surprising that they sailed to visit each other. :))

[@internetual7350]

@@vyktorzhuravlev8304 We aren't Slavs, we descend from the Bell Beaker culture of Hallstatt. There is little to no evidence to suggest we descend from the Slavs.

[@vyktorzhuravlev8304]

@@internetual7350 Ye just don't know the real history. For too long ye have been under the yoke and genocide of the Anglo-Saxons. My advice thee, learnest Russian.

[@autumnphillips151]

⁠​⁠@@vyktorzhuravlev8304 There is no relation at all between Indo-Europeans and any of the many different unrelated groups of indigenous peoples in the Americas. ​​⁠ No one is a Slav except the Slavs (who speak Slavic languages). No one came from the ancient Slavs except the Slavs. The ancient Slavs came from the ancient Balto-Slavs, who came from the ancient Indo-Europeans, just like the ancient Indo-Iranics, the ancient Greeks, the ancient Albanians, the ancient Armenians, the ancient Italics, the ancient Celts, and the ancient Germanics did. There is no tie between the Celts and Slavs except Proto-Indo-European-they were never in contact at all after that, as a matter of fact. Celts are closer to the Italic and Germanic peoples and the Greeks than they are to the Slavs. You need to stop spreading what is some of the most ridiculous misinformation I’ve ever seen in my life.

[@xxmisty_rosexx3885]

Good to know that English is not the only language in the UK, and that all countries have their own cultures. Thanks Andy! 🌍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

[@crystalpink6535]

France is also not only french But breton,basque,occitan and corsican too 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@treeman12815]

lowland scotland is pretty similar to that of england tho

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

[@diegone080]

@@crystalpink6535 just like italy

[@robp3449]

Ireland 🇮🇪 (Republic of Ireland) is not a part of the UK.

[@crystalpink6535]

Celtic languages are so amazing The british and french accents are so cool

[@Frilouz79]

Note that some of these languages have different forms, at least for 2,3 and 4, for feminine nouns. For example in Breton: div, teir, peder. The forms presented here are for masculine nouns.

[@neilr6006]

Thank you!, I’m a welsh speaker and surprised how similar Breton was.. really interesting to see the similarities

[@yohannamyot1278]

Breton speaker here, your pronunciation is quite good ! Just for information, we have four (and more but four major) dialects in Breton : Kerneveg, Leoneg, Tregerieg. We also have the beautiful Gwenedeg which is quite different from the other three ones (for lots of reasons). There is also the Breton from Nantes (Naoned), and the Goëlo Breton which is spoken near Paimpol (Pempoull). The Breton Andy uses here is the kind of Breton from the three first dialects, also called KLT to make it short.

[@TimothyFolkema]

There’s over 500 speakers of Kernewek :-) Lots of music, too. For example, Gwenno has Cornish and Welsh parents and makes psych-pop in both languages :-) Kernow bys vyken!

[@johnmackenreillytag]

Físeán den scoth! Go raibh maith agat as tuilleadh airde a tharraingt ar na teangacha Ceilteacha! 🇮🇪 💚

[@CherryOnTop001]

Не забувайте свою мову!Мова важлива

[@grimnoob893]

However I have no idea what you are saying, I must say it is sound epic nad glorious

[@user-hnjga8is1zr6u]

Andy, perkenalan dirimu di setiap awal video pake macem-macem bahasa yang terkait sama tiap video (terutama di video ini) mantep banget dah. Apalagi bahasa-bahasa Goidelik (Keltik Q) yang pengucapannya bisa dibilang lumayan susah logikanya, luar biasa. Uploadmu yang rajin banget akhir-akhir ini juga keren maksimal, dedikasimu luar biasa. Semangat terus kawan, istirahat jangan lupa yaa!!! 😁😁😁✨

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Terima kasih! Saya menghargai itu. :D

[@rizalsandy]

Celtic Q pronunciations sound like French pronunciation for me. Tidak konsisten pengucapannya.

[@user-hnjga8is1zr6u]

@@rizalsandy sisa2 ortografi masa lalu ya bang hahahh Tapi katanya sih...gak sebegitu acak juga, kebanyakan bisa dikira2 apa (utamanya yang bahasa baku sih, bukan yang dialek di daerah2 Gaeltacht)

[@darshanpatel.1782]

The consistency! I'm flabbergasted!

[@yddraigfelyn]

Diolch yn fawr from a Welsh speaker!

[@aLaMode298]

Probably my favorite language family. All 6 of them are so beautiful.

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

[@autumnphillips151]

They aren’t a language family, though. They’re a subfamily or branch of the Indo-European family.

[@kasikasivendjinn5345]

Andy, I love how cute your voice sound across any language.

[@colmtierney3160]

The number 4 really shows how the languages have a common ancestor with the main sound difference being the Q-sound at the beginning of the Goidelic languages and P-sound in the Byrthonic languages, as you mentioned earlier.

[@hotcocoandart]

Kinda hilarious that three seems to have stayed the same across the entire family of languages

[@Knappa22]

Ooh I do like a good graphic. Love the comparative numbers table, and the little figures in national costume!

[@Davlavi]

Love Celtic languages thanks.

[@polluxxxx399]

Hey Andy! I don’t know if you remember me; but i was the one that made the Celtic language vídeo suggestion! I just wanted to say thank you, and have a great day/evening/night!! ☺️

[@craigmoir6688]

Gàidhlig na h-Alba!!👏👏

[@florinparlo5124]

Nice Video Andy! You're a good teacher!

[@alexilsley897]

Glad to see kernôwek represented!

[@sunnyd8585]

The Kesh Jig is the song played in the background.

[@ggarzagarcia]

Awesome video! You probably have been asked this: where are you from? Your linguistic skills have been praised by many. Keep up the good work.

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Thank you! 🇵🇭💖💖💖

[@bencezalankiss2834]

@@ilovelanguages0124 And which languages do you speak?

[@zygnus9481]

@@bencezalankiss2834 I think she speak Bisaya since she's from southern Philippines

[@ailurr]

@@zygnus9481 he* (i think)

[@user-tk4gr9zo7t]

@@ilovelanguages0124 we love you too Andy ❤️‍🔥💖💕

[@dalubwikaan161]

I am interested in learning Cornish though. Where should I start

[@Liam-zg2ip]

This makes me happy as a Cornishman

[@michaelhalsall5684]

It's interesting to see who closely related they are. Manx looks different to the two other Goidelic languages as it has, since being revived, been written in a spelling system similar to English rather the more traditional "Gaelic" spelling system.

[@nestormakhno4897]

Hello Andy pls Make a video on Hellenic language family!!

[@TheOlgaSasha]

I am surprised how Celtic numbers are close to Slavic ones. They are even closer than neighbouring to us Germanic and Romance numbers. In modern Ukrainian (and in old Slavic): 1-odín (edan) 2-dva (dva) 3-trí (tri) 4-čotyry (cetire) 5-pyať (pec) 6-šisť (sesc) 7-sim (sedm) 8-visim (osm) 9-devyať (devec) 10-deśať (desec)

[@Flavio06626]

Another common interesting feature is palatalization

[@bvbv6603]

I think this is a confirmation that the Celtic peoples in the past lived much east of where they live now. I read that in the Celtic languages there is also the category of gender and possession is expressed through the verb to be, and not to have (as in the Germanic languages). And one more thing: who read Russian folk tales in Russian, he could notice that the narrative is built in such a way that the verb most often comes first. Although Russian has a flexible word order in a sentence and the verb can in principle be placed anywhere, there is a tendency in older sources to put the verb at the beginning.

[@ArgantaelAlaouret]

Hum is it not just that all Indo-European languages have each some common words, esp if those are very "basic words" (such as sea, father, mother, numbers, animals,...)

[@ArgantaelAlaouret]

@@bvbv6603 I confirm the fact that we don't use the verb "to have" in Breton and rather use deformations of "to be" and that in a lot of sentences the verb tends to be put first but that's only because we don't use personal subjects, a bit like in Spanish or Italian sometimes. (the word order is also kinda free, but changes slightly the sentence meaning). Though, if I am honest I really don't think it's closer to Slavic languages than any other Indo-European language group.

[@徳-r8j]

The Celtic language group, in general, is much older and thus more conservative than Germanic & Italic languages/groups. So it would make sense if it shared a relatively high proportion of similarities with languages which currently exist near the place of proto-Indo-European (this location is indeed around Ukrainian). Celtic languages also share a strikingly large proportion of unique core grammatical structures with the languages of the Levant / Near East, which also suggests a highly conservative nature (in other words, preserving a large component of Western Europe’s pre-IE language)

[@KostasJohansson]

Andy I love your voice 😊😊😊❤️

[@jakekarr9733]

I prefer Manx and Scottish Gaelic I’m not particularly fond of Irish Gaelic and Welsh. Gaulish and Pictish would be fascinating to continue to explore.

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

Who are you? What nationality are you? Whatever it is, you are obviously a very bad example of your people! Try coming to Cymru(Wales) and saying that! I didn’t think so. Learn respect!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👎

[@ofaoilleachain]

Out of curiousity...why not Gaeilge?

[@Garo-606]

@@ofaoilleachainreal I feel like Gaeilge is the prettiest language out of the Celtic languages

[@cosmin10valcea24]

In Romania the ground is full of celtic graves, but the most important treajure i think it.s the language, a mixture of latin and celtic: unu, doi, trei, patru, cinci, șase, șapte, opt,noua, zece!😊

[@Liliphant_]

I love this channel

[@oz25]

Love how Cornish sounds like Welsh spoken by an English person and Bretton sounds like Welsh spoken by a French person 🤣x

[@0000none3]

love celtic ppl from Turkey anatolia!

[@aaronmarks9366]

Some Turks are Celts! The ancient Galatians who settled in the Ankara region spoke Gaulish - while they were assimilated by the Greeks and Romans over time, it's likely that some modern Turks are partially descended from them ❤

[@ddddc300]

@@aaronmarks9366 wtf

[@eren.mapping]

@@aaronmarks9366 possible some Turks are blond blue eyed in the middle and the West of the country

[@corporatejones9126]

@@ddddc300 What do you mean by wtf? Are you confused with your tiny little brains? Learn history. The celts used to be in Anatolia region before the Turks and greeks arrived at Anatolia

[@luisrafaelmagalhaes8547]

Brezhoneg😍 my favourite language in the world 🇵🇹💞🖤⚪🖤

[@Cahootian]

An bhfuil céad Agam duo go dtí an leithreas?

[@eliyahushvartz2167]

Nú ríncha ni gwidhío gwer in tengu Galáthach hAthevíu Now we need a video on Modern Gaulish

[@user-tk4gr9zo7t]

That would be really cool!!!!

[@chelodepena8292]

I Love you're videos Andy you're very Smart the language so very difficult but you so very nice 👍🙂 videos and so Cool 😎🆒

[@jagkanal]

This is a bit off-topic, but I remember seeing a video from you covering the Batak language but I can't seem to find it, did you delete it?

[@m.v.domingo5363]

Both Tagalog and Irish words are VSO grammar. Much like Arabic and Hebrew, also are VSO. Mae'n siarad iaith ei hun Tha an cànan aige fhèin Nagsasalita siya ng sariling wika Siya nagsulti sa kaugalingong pinulongan

[@ofaoilleachain]

They are? Never would have thought...must tell my Filipino friends, ahaha

[@xosga1968]

I am learning Welsh and a little Irish!. I love them but find them soooo difficult to learn. But i like challenges🙂🦾

[@evilcommunistpicklerick3175]

Daliwch ati!

[@thebestsibling4525]

Go n-éirí leat! Tuigim is Gaeilge é teanga deacair. Áfach, nuair atá tú in ann an teanga á úsáid, éiróidh sé fíorghalánta agus éiríonn tú Ceilteach! Tá tú in ann do smaointe agus do choincheapa á léiriú is cosúil le na Ceiltigh!

[@lothariobazaroff3333]

Mae'r anhawster yn dibynnu ar dy famiaith. Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg hefyd. Mae cymaint o eiriau gwych yn yr iaith honno, er enghraifft: ELENI ("this year"), CARDOTA ("to beg"), DAEARYDDIAETH ("geography"), GWRANDO ("to listen"), ac yn y blaen.

[@samhaine6804]

please do a full video on welsh or cornish please! x

[@DoubleWhopperWithCheese]

The cornish numbers are a bit off? I learnt them as Onan Dew Tri Peswar Pymp Hwegh seyth eth naw deg. Could be Late Cornish compared to the Modern Standard Cornish based off of Middle cornish texts? Despite that great video! An video yw da! Also Blydhen Nowydh Da Andi! (happy new year, I know its late but beter late then ever!)

[@davythfear1582]

The Standard Written Form has two variants of equal standing, for Middle and Late Cornish. So Andy's list is fine, as are yours of course.

[@DoubleWhopperWithCheese]

@@davythfear1582 That makes sense, also follows breton's development which would make sense considering the contact between the two.

[@nikkusamagothique]

cool Celtic language video Andy sound so beautiful and interesting and I hope can you upload another language video please of three extinct Celtic language first is cumbric second is galwegian Gaelic dialect of Scottish Gaelic third is Galatian formerly spoken in anatolia or asia minor :)

[@NetherTaker]

Slàinte a charaid! Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig. Is fìor thoil leam Gàidhlig, 's e cànan brèagha a th' ann.

[@noob-ishnoob749]

Brittany flag is so coool

[@joshuapezeron8195]

As Breton, thank you!

[@BlueDusk95]

It's called Gwenn-ha-du which means white and black.

[@colmmccabe7223]

Fascinating

[@feliperodriguesclaffnne8151]

Linguae celticae linguae Latinae simillimae sunt.

[@browenniyakkaunt]

What Wales?

[@Hyperion-5744]

Alba gu 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@nimic6137]

Make video with romance languages

[@dean.haraldkolompar7624]

2:22

[@nairobi-laputaama9662]

Andy where are you from?

[@deliaroman-ow3fq]

Ireland 🇮🇪 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Isle Of Man 🇮🇲 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@modmaker7617]

Gaelic has 2 different pronunciations which mean 2 different things "gay-lik" = Irish "gah-lik" = Scottish

[@polluxxxx399]

Then I’m glad that i pronounce Scottish Gaelic as “Scottish Gah-Lick”. Many people have told me that you pronounce it as “Gay-Lick” and not “Gah-Lick”…

[@brianboru7684]

Argyll Scottish is gay-lik

[@user-tk4gr9zo7t]

@@brianboru7684 That’s because they’re influenced by Irish more. I’m pretty sure Argyll was one of the big places where the Irish Gaelic speakers initially settled in Scotland, so it makes sense.

[@Bryanlbw]

Gàidhlig vs gaeilge

[@autumnphillips151]

No, not necessarily. “Gay-lik”, as you put it, could refer to any of the three Gaelic languages, and Canadian Gaels, who speak Scottish Gaelic, call it “gay-lik”. It’s only the Scottish Gaelic speakers in Scotland who call it, as you put it, “gah-lik”-other dialects don’t do that.

[@sharfinshardul3622]

Cornish is my favorite

[@jacopoperdono1195]

🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@DeliaRoman-vy2ki]

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Isle of Man 🇮🇲 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Ireland 🇮🇪

[@ofaoilleachain]

Iontach, go raibh maith agat, a chara!

[@crimsonholocene949]

Yk channel is based when saying hello takes 30 seconds 😎

[@mothman9003]

splann!!!!

[@icantthinkofaname5526]

Pur dha!

[@Anonymous33326]

I am a celt and jamacian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@autumnphillips151]

So you speak a Celtic language? Scottish Gaelic and/or Welsh, I’m guessing, by the flags? No offense, but I say that someone can’t be a Celt if they don’t speak a Celtic language. It’s an ethnolinguistic group, after all-not only blood but also language.

[@LeCuaqq]

nice :D

[@crisantinapangilinan8375]

except England

[@autumnphillips151]

Except England what?

[@gillianosullivanpersonaltr4243]

Just saying Andy I’m irish and we don’t say hello is mise Andy it’s dia guit is mise andy

[@ewensecher6251]

Trugarez evit ar video!

[@autumnphillips151]

This translates as “Please avoid video!” Is that what you meant to say?

[@Tunnerthesheriffgamerpro]

Irish: John Purcell Uasal oifigeach cléireachais agus ríomhaireachta é an chéad cheann a lainseáladh i gceist le úsáid a bhaineann leis an obair sin a dhéanamh ag údarás áitiúil nó pobail tuaithe Scottish Gaelic: Nuair bha i na laighe eadar an dà chuid ann an Alba air fad an loidhne gu caol ri taobh na crìochan leis Na tìrean Manx: Ny keayrtyn t'ad eddyrscarrey çheer-oaylleeaght ayns daa phossan çheet er sorçh ennagh dy vel y çhengey shen goll er loayrt ayns yn Affrick ee yn Welsh: John Elwyn Hughes a gyhoeddodd y gyfrol yn cynnwys cwcis gan safleoedd allanol gwybodaeth i rieni yn yr ardal yn cynnwys cwcis gan safleoedd cyfryngau yn yr ardal hon rhwng Breton: Ur wech c'hoazh ne zegemeront ouzh e wreg e voe e penn ar vro gant armeoù gall Napoleon Bonaparte e voe gant an dud e karg da zesevel e voe gant an impalaer Cornish: Jenner ha lies gwlas kentrevek yw Iran Afghanistan ha Pakistan y'n est an mor Karib yw stat byghan damyow an yeth Kernewek yw kowethyans pastiow yn Kernewek kemmyn yn mysk an epskobow.

[@brianboru7684]

Manx is a Goidelic language like Irish and Scottish Gaelic not Brythonic.

[@joshuapezeron8195]

It's what the video say

[@sidimightbe]

Celtic is my favorite Semitic language

[@oro7114]

@Zura it’s in reference to Celtic languages having the same word order as Semitic ones, but I’m not sure why

[@徳-r8j]

Modern native Irish people (as one example) derive ~85-90% of their genes from pre-Indo-European people, so it would make sense that Celtic languages retained a large proportion of the non-IE linguistic features of the languages that people used before Celtic. These were (very high likelihood) unsurprisingly closely related to the languages of the Levant/Anatolia/Egypt, since that’s where basically all ancient European populations ultimately trace their lineage to. (People didn’t come from the Sahara desert, the North Pole, or the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, after all)

[@lothariobazaroff3333]

@@oro7114 I only speak Welsh and Hebrew from those groups. The former is VSO, the latter SVO. Perhaps you're talking about adjectives following nouns.

[@autumnphillips151]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@徳-r8j That’s not true-quite the opposite. The Irish have one of the highest percentages of Indo-European DNA. The Celts did a much more thorough job of wiping out the pre-Indo-Europeans who lived in the British Isles prior to their arrival than other Indo-European groups did in other areas of Europe. The Irish are about half Indo-European by blood. And it will differ a bit depending on which source you’re looking at as different researches will have collected samples from different people, but it doesn’t differ that much, and the source I’m looking at right now shows only Icelanders having a higher percentage of Indo-European DNA than the Irish.

[@autumnphillips151]

⁠@@徳-r8j Southern Europe is where you find the people with a large majority of pre-Indo-European DNA. The only people with that amount of pre-Indo-European DNA in Europe are the Sardinians.

[@Donarfloydr]

Portuguese = Tu - Proto-celtic = Tu. Portuguese = Sol - Proto-celtic = Sawol. Portuguese = Lua - Proto-celtic = Lugra. Portuguese = Noite - Proto-celtic = Noxs. Portuguese = Novo - Proto-celtic = Nouyos. Portuguese = Com - Proto-celtic = Kom. Portuguese = Meu/minha - Proto-celtic = Mos/ma/mon. Portuguese = Teu/tua - Proto-celtic = Tewos/twa/twon. Portuguese = Está/é/existe - Proto-celtic = Esti. Portuguese = És/estás - Proto-celtic = Esi. Portuguese = Éramos/estávamos - Proto-celtic = Esamos. Portuguese = Porco - Lusitanian = Porcom. Portuguese = Touro - Lusitanian = Taurom. Portuguese = Senil/Sênior - Lusitanian = Seno. Portuguese = Dente - Lusitanian = Dant. Portuguese = Deus - Lusitanian = Deiwos.

[@Donarfloydr]

Portuguese = Tu és meu sol. Proto-celtic = Tu esi mos sawol.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

We came from northern Portugal to Ireland The port of Gali is the port of the Gaels we are the Gaels Portugal and Spain were a meet up point for Iberians and us Gaels coming from the east

[@L1M.L4M]

Ah yes, celحic

[@martapijuanblanco9772]

Ich bin 10jahrealt und verstehe englisch nur 6 provent kann jemand alles auf Deutsch übersetzen

[@Cute69690]

isle of man 🇮🇲 👁👄👁

[@autumnphillips151]

I’m confused by this comment, lol... Why the wide eyes?

[@jesseloquen]

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[@NinoDesbordes256]

Demat deoc'h! Im french but I'd like to learn Breton. I can say a few words though.

[@jamburga321]

These are the three most spoken Celtic languages

[@שלום-ג1ה]

🇮🇱🇲🇦❤🇬🇧❤🇮🇪

[@vyktorzhuravlev8304]

Dia daoibh, a dhaoine ! The Celts are one of the clans of the ancient Slavs. To Irish people I recommend start learning Russian. And vice versa. I am currently learning Irish and Welsh, Cornish is next :)))

[@ArgantaelAlaouret]

May I ask on what ground (research, etc) are you basing this remark ? And what does "ancient Slavs" mean to you ? (Because when talking about Celts, we're talking about circa 800 BC and later usually, so if I'm not wrong, Slavs weren't there back then, and never reached western Europe were Celtic traditions survived later on) Celtic civilisation's origins are pretty unknown except for the common Hallstadt central civilization (in central Europe) and the fact that it spread until Anatolia east, and the Anglo-Saxon islands west. Also the only thing that make a population Celt is the language and some cultural aspects (because there is no ancient Celtic common ethnicity) so by default Slavs have no links to Celts. And Celts were never a "clan" either. I'd really be interested in knowing what I share in common with Slavs as a Breton.....

[@vyktorzhuravlev8304]

@@ArgantaelAlaouret Thou will have to learn Russian, and then study the works of Russian researchers on this topic. Nothing else.

[@autumnphillips151]

@@ArgantaelAlaouret ​​⁠The remark is based purely on Russian insanity. It would be funny if it wasn’t so gross. Who the hell liked that lunatic’s comments?

[@autumnphillips151]

@@vyktorzhuravlev8304 No one came from the ancient Slavs except the Slavs. The ancient Slavs came from the ancient Balto-Slavs, who came from the ancient Indo-Europeans, just like the ancient Indo-Iranics, the ancient Greeks, the ancient Albanians, the ancient Armenians, the ancient Italics, the ancient Celts, and the ancient Germanics did. There is no tie between the Celts and Slavs except Proto-Indo-European-they were never in contact at all after that, as a matter of fact. Celts are closer to the Italic and Germanic peoples and the Greeks than they are to the Slavs. You need to stop spreading what is some of the most ridiculous misinformation I’ve ever seen in my life.

[@DylanPage-ch6qu]

Too bad Manx and Cornish are gone… :(

[@autumnphillips151]

They aren’t gone. They’ve both got about a couple thousand speakers, and those numbers are slowly but steadily increasing.