[MR] Celtic origin...?

[EoganOg at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/26/01 2:49:14 PM !!!First Boot!!!, 
olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes:


> >Very much OT Olwen, but the Celtoi were one of the first peoples to settle 
> >in
> >Gaul(France). The Brittany people still speak a dialect of gaelic, and the
> >Celtoi influenced that cooking a great deal, or so it's been surmised.
> 

Not that the jist of this is wrong, but the specifics are a little off.  
People tend to equate Gaelic with Celtic, which results in people saying that 
the Bretons speak a dialect of Gaelic, which they do not.  Gaelic is a Celtic 
language.  The Celtic language is divided into two branches, Gaelic on the 
one hand (which includes Manx), and Brythonic on the other, which would 
include Welsh, Cornish, Breton, and whatver the Picts spoke.

So Breton and Gaelic are two different languages, but cousins.  About as 
related, I would guess, as English and German.
Aye,
Eogan
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