History of the Celtic languages
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2019
- History of the Celtic languages, Celts, Proto-Celtic, Gaulish, Lepontic, Insular Celtic, Celtiberian, Goidelic, Brythonic, Galatian, Breton, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Cumbric, Scottish Gaelic, Manx
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What a sad history. Celts are one of the most interesting people of Europe. I hope their descendents will keep alive their language and culture.
Celts just means someone speaking a language of the celtic family tree. These people never disappeared their language changed
It seems celtic culture is doomed to disappear. Bretonians switch to French, Scottish switch to English. Even free Irish do not speak Irish anymore.
@@mkb6418 if we want to be honest that's a common situation, unfortunately, for all the minor languages in Europe (at least in the western part).
Welsh is the only one that will be fine. Irish and Scottish people would rather become English.
@@lvaughn7724 you can make fun of the Scottish but you gotta give the Irish a break after what happened to them they manage to keep it all the way till the potato famine.
It's worth mentioning that in Canada some people still speak Scottish Gaelic, and that here in Argentina (in some parts of Patagonia) there's a big Welsh community, and the language is spoken fluently by a large number of people, and it's being taught to kids at some schools (and, of course, there's places where you can simply go learn it, like with any other language). It's even said that Argentinian Welsh keeps some old words that aren't used anymore in Wales, but I don't know that much myself.
There's some people in Jamaica that still speak irish too
There used to be irish schools in Canada before the governement forced everybody to go to school in English all over Canada except in Québec and New-Brunswick, because we fought for it. But the danish, germans, scottish, irish, the indigenous and a lot of french canadian outside those Québec and New-Brunswick lost their language and with that most of their culture.
I met a Newfie in Belgium who spoke fluent (if heavily accented and garbled to my ears) Irish. Her little fishing community kept it right up to this day, which is just unbelievable.
In Saint Pierre et Miquelon (French overseas), there are some people who speak breton
I’m pretty sure it does, these languages seem to change very fast. The revived version of Cornish is very different from the old version of it that died out in the 18th century, which was also closer to Welsh
>Almost extinct
Sad
Fortunately, the decline of these languages has stopped and there are efforts to recover languages
Actually they are revitalizing irish
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist I hope someone reconstruct brythonic afterall,the celtic element is as present in the english people as the germanic if not more,so it would be interesting to revitalize the celktic identity of the british at least in the most western regions of England
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist right,in average The english are just 35%anglo-saxon,the rest is basically celtic like 30%-60%,with some minor sprinkles of roman,scandinavian and norman
Welsh is doing quite well in Britain.
im proud to be welsh, and learning welsh🏴
Isn't there any obligatory classes in school to learn?
Piñata voll Schweinemett yes- but most skip so classes of 40 kids turn into 3-7
ЭТА ИСТОРИЯ, С ТОЧНОСТЬЮ ДО НАОБОРОТ !!! КЕЛЬТЫ ЗАРОДИЛИСЬ В ГАЛАТИИ ГДЕ В ЭТОМ РЕГИОНЕ ФОРМИРОВАЛИСЬ АРИЙСКИЕ ЯЗЫКИ ! БРИТАНСКАЯ ЛЕТОПИСЬ 10в ГЛАСИТ,ЧТО БРИТТЫ РОДОМ ИЗ АРМЕНИИ !! ХВАТИТ ПЕРЕВОРАЧИВАТЬ ИСТОРИЮ !!!
Woiller- Relic patriotism... why not?
@Woiller- Relic well, from my personal experience, children in schools usually don't like to study. So, when they have a right to skip some classes they will likely skip them. Also, one of the reasons could be that they don't see a practical use of that language when they already know the most widely spoken one in the world.
I think that this is a fantastic animation style for these kinds of videos.
ЭТА ИСТОРИЯ, С ТОЧНОСТЬЮ ДО НАОБОРОТ !!! КЕЛЬТЫ ЗАРОДИЛИСЬ В ГАЛАТИИ ГДЕ В ЭТОМ РЕГИОНЕ ФОРМИРОВАЛИСЬ АРИЙСКИЕ ЯЗЫКИ ! БРИТАНСКАЯ ЛЕТОПИСЬ 10в ГЛАСИТ,ЧТО БРИТТЫ РОДОМ ИЗ АРМЕНИИ !! ХВАТИТ ПЕРЕВОРАЧИВАТЬ ИСТОРИЮ !!!
Lol@@edouardbarseghian5966
It's a pity how so recently Irish became endangered.
A slow but non threatening fade is the 1600's and then a massive blow in the mid 1800's when the famine killed the native speakers or sent them to English speaking countries where the language became irrelevant. From there anyone left in Ireland speaking it where banned from doing so in work and school by the English.
Thankfully today there's still around 80,000 day-day speakers and around an extra 200,000 whom know it but don't regularly use it.
I agree, given the widespread cúpla focal used here in Ireland, I think that it should be the diagonal green white stripes again at this stage. Gaeilge being a mandatory part of secondary education in Ireland has really made a lot of people better at Irish than they think.
Kenny Cooke Actually I disagree 😂 I see lots of comments trying to say that there is hope for Irish but honestly, there isn’t. Especially as we live in a word where English is the lingua Franca there isn’t really a need for Irish. As someone from Dublin currently learning Irish in secondary school, everyone I know hates Irish and can barely speak it at all. This isn’t me saying I hate Irish or anything as I would like it to be the native language again but this is just what I think
@@MoreGeography I hated Gaeilge when I was in Secondary School too, but I loved it in Primary school, and in my 4th year in NUIG, I have such a love for the language. There is such a resurgence in Gaeilge these days
@@MoreGeography english is a very useful language, yes. but irish people only speaks irish, while english was imposed by force. this is why irish people must learn gaelge, cuz it's the language of ireland!! not english.
@@MoreGeography You'd sooner find a pig flying in Dublin than someone speaking Irish. If you want to hear Irish, go West, North or South. Just because everyone you know "doesn't speak it" and "hates it" doesn't mean everyone in the fecking country does.
I discovered your channel right now, looks cool, just some minor adds:
- The Gaulish varieties spoken in the Eastern part of the Alps probably became its own language and was known as Noric
- Pictish, once spoken in Scotland, was very likely a Brythonic language
- There was another Celtic language, distinct from Celtiberian spoken in present-day (Spanish) Galicia known as Gallaecian
- A language spoken in Portugal known as Lusitanian may be Celtic, but it's debated and some say it's related to Proto-Celtic
- Cornish and Manx were revived and are not considered dead languages anymore, they have a handful of 300 speakers or more
But anyways, great video, keep it up! :-D
Τhanks for the additional information.
And the north of Portugal spoke gallaecian aswell
today´s Gallaecian (gallego), is a Romance language who comes from Latin, like Castillian, Catalonian , French or Romanian.
Julian Fejzo Gallaecian is not at all a Celtic language...
@@BabaBugman You are confusing Gallaecian with Galician
I am learning Breton, and as a fluent Welsh speaker, I am loving finding the similarities between the two Brythonic branches. Definitely got a head start, but the pronunciation is very different to Welsh due to the French influence. On paper though there are many similarities. I want to learn as much. Breton as possible and help support out friends in Llydaw (Brittany) to revive their language against a backdrop of hostility of the French government towards anything other than French. Their language and culture is so interesting to me. There's similarities between Welsh and Gaulish too, such as the counting system and many others...That blew my mind when I found that out only recently!
*You don't have too,*
but you should also learn Cornish.
In any case good luck learning Breton.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 thanks! I probably should start with Cornish first, it would be easier to learn Breton then! I wish Kernow well in bringing the language back.
@@chrisrichards7930 I wish Cornish revival was more successful
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 are you Cornish? It will take awhile but they are definitely on their way. Cornwall should go for devolution, to get more powers to legislate for the education sector like in Wales.
@@chrisrichards7930 no I'm not Cornish.
I'm a mutt of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English ancestry. (Mostly English)
And Norwegian.
And that's it.
Hell you could argue I'm not even British.
Hello from America.
I just like the languages of the British isles. And it's culture.
My future children won't even be pure northwest European. They're gonna be half North African
Certified mutt.
blows my mind to think that there was a native celtic language in Turkey
Аncient Ankyra (nowadays Ankara) was a main city of Galatia - Celtic populated province of Roman Empire. Galatians first were greecenizated - then turkinezated, and at least - assimilated within Asia Minor peninsula population...
There was not Turkey at that time there was rome but the culture of the east was greek. The celts at asia minor territory were a tribe that had moved from modern day france to the modern day Turkey territory and they were isolated so their language changed
Turkey's capital is a Celtic city
I have always been intrigued by Galatians and their Celtic language that was once spoken in central Turkey. The easternmost branch of the celtic language family.
@D J just like there was no such thing as Ireland or France. But we talk about the celtic languages of Ireland and France.
I am from a village in the centre of Spain and I have always been surprised by the word "Basca" as a synonym for Anxiety, Disquiet or Restlessness used in these small villages and by country people like my grandmother.
I was surprised to discover that this word is Celtic and comes from "waskā", in Welsh "gwâsg" and Breton "gwask". The last of a Celtiberian language extinct almost 2 millennia ago
A ver, los españoles somos más celtas que los británicos juntos
@@vgjl1824
Si lo sabemos pero los Britis especialmente los Ingleses que repudiar su legado Celta .
Todo lo que sea celta dicen que eran salvajes así hasta el día de hoy en Escocia e Irlanda tienen que sufrir tener de frontera a Inglaterra, peor si los Ingleses se enteran que en España se dieron los Celtas ,Celtiberos (en las laderas del Ebro) y otros grupos celtas se Dan contra la mesa .
Es duro que España no se saque del mundo celta que Galicia ,Asturias y nada más cuando Celtíberos eran Aragonés .Creo que los únicos que tienen más o menos idea de los celtas y celtiberos de España son los Irlandeses y Escoceses.
@@vgjl1824 no, you are not. As we Italians aren't. Even if some political parties pretend we are. Bullshit.
@@vgjl1824 no, the British include Scotland Mann Wales & Cornwall and ethnically England is highly Celtic
@@calibvr englands are like 60% Germans, they are more Germanic than south Germans, Swiss and Austrians
good news is these languages are slowly coming back and cornish is being resurrected
Comrade Jeb Bush m’ath kernowek !
Comrade Jeb Bush I love Cornish in cornish
and there are more people learning Irish than even currently speak it now
Antelope Valley Planning thanks Duolingo
Taves Kernewek - Cornish language. Here is a bit of Cornish for you.... mia navidna cawsa sowsnek = I will not speak English to you (a common phrase in the 17th and 18th C when an Englishman spoke to a Cornishman in English). From Bodmin, Cornwall.
Although latinized, in Piedmontese we still have some unique words of Celtic origin; words like _crin_ ("pig"), _such_ ("log, trunk"), _dru_ ("fertile", whence the word _drugia_ "manure"), _bialera_ ("stream, brook"), _balma_ ("cave"), _galaverna_ ("hoarfrost") are all remnants of the ancient Gaulish language as spoken in Piedmont.
so it is in german. words like "Pferd" (horse), "Zaun" (fence) or the infamous word "Reich" (Empire). Also here in south-western germany, many city and rivernames are celtic.
@@dershogun6396 German Zaun and the English town have the same root and Celtic origin.
Interesting, in Slavic languages "suk" means thick cut off tree branch.
@@AlexBeau9 mhm, yes i have heard that somewhere else aswell. Thank you for reminding me of that interesting fact !
@Emperor Louis The Retard it has a celtic origin, yes
"The end".
Sadly fitting for the video's subject :(
ЭТА ИСТОРИЯ, С ТОЧНОСТЬЮ ДО НАОБОРОТ !!! КЕЛЬТЫ ЗАРОДИЛИСЬ В ГАЛАТИИ ГДЕ В ЭТОМ РЕГИОНЕ ФОРМИРОВАЛИСЬ АРИЙСКИЕ ЯЗЫКИ ! БРИТАНСКАЯ ЛЕТОПИСЬ 10в ГЛАСИТ,ЧТО БРИТТЫ РОДОМ ИЗ АРМЕНИИ !! ХВАТИТ ПЕРЕВОРАЧИВАТЬ ИСТОРИЮ !!!
ní deireadh é
@@adamender9092 Scottish has been shrinking for decades now, with the last Scottish Gáidhealtachd forecast to dissappear within the next few years. Irish isn't faring much better, with the number of daily speakers being in the low thousands (65,000 as of 2019) and the last Irish Gaeltacht is going to disappear within a few decades too.
The only reason so many people know how to speak Irish is largely because its compulsory in schools to learn, but since the Irish identity is on the decline due to Europeanism and the fact that ethnic Irish are rapidly declining as a proportion of the population (only 75% of people born in ireland last year were Irish, and thats forecast to drop below 50% by 2050), it's inevitable under current trends that people will want schools to stop teaching the Irish language to make room for one 'more useful' like French or German.
It's hard to hear, but unless something radically changes soon, this is the end of the Gaelic languages.
Ankara, Turkey's capital's name comes from the word Ancyra in Galatian
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Gaul
The word "Ancyra" is Greek for "Anchor". The name was itself a modification of the older Hittite name "Ankuwash". Gauls/Galatians came much afterwards, so whatever they might have called the city, it didn't actually affect the current line of descent.
As a Welshman I'm proud to be learning Welsh. As a child I didn't see the point of Welsh, I thought it was a dead language because almost nobody speaks it in my part of Wales, and so did most of the others in my year. Fortunately attitudes are changing and many who used to think like that now see Welsh as important. Unfortunately I don't think Welsh will return to my area in my lifetime, but we have to make sure it is kept in the areas that still speak it
Well-done. Take pride in your Celtic heritage
The Welsh must try to preserve, and even revive Welsh even more, and that's coming from an Englishman
I think the problem is children / teenagers aren't much interested in traditional culture (and not just in Wales), it's only when they get older do they realise its value.
Isn't it something that one of the books of the Bible is written to a Celtic people, that is the Galatians!
Yup
Mi a galatians girl.Celtic girl a clan Galații in Galația.
Merch o clan galatiaidd y genedl geltaidd ydw I
Rwy'n dod o'r galati clan celtaidd
@@andradaacarpei3752 are you a romanian living in wales?
It's sad how many celtic languages disapeared.
The celtic culture fascinates me, I love reading about it.
Makes me sad that the celtic languages got extinct in Portugal (my country).
Fight to preserve these languages, keep your language and culture alive.
Greetings from Portugal
This happened with a lot of languages, and the worst part is so many of them will be forgotten for ever :(
Não poderias ter dito melhor. Há que conservar as nossas heranças.
Não poderias ter dito melhor. Há que conservar as nossas heranças.
Não poderias ter dito melhor. Há que conservar as nossas heranças.
Don't think that's sad. That's how it's been all History, it's a natural thing to happen. And it's very convenient to have all people from a certain territory speaking the same language
And pray for the Celtic languages not to go extinct!
Gaeilge go deo!
its good to know that there are movements to keep Celtic languages and culture alive and well.
Love this video. Well done, easy to understand and informative. The Celts and their languages have always interested me. So this timeline approach was very helpful.
We Albanians also did fight to protect our language. Today there are 6 million albanian speakers in the Balkan.
I advice to Celtics to conserve their beautiful and historical Language too, because for me it’s the most important thing of a nation.
The language is the spirit of a nation.
When you even fighted for that? Never
@@kissathegamer4697 Albanians were under foreign rule for a thousand year..
Byzantines, Serbians, ottomans,Venetians..
It's a miracle the Albanian language still exists till this day
@@mafiaboss1975 it shows that they never tried to assimilate you expect the ottomans. ottomans made you islamic state.
Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA" and you'll learn the true history
@@kissathegamer4697 no one tried to assimilate the Albanians. The ottomans didn't care about language as long as you pay taxes. I would understand this guy if all of the Balkans would speak Turkish now except the Albanians.
As usual, I love your work!
Celtic was once spoken in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) called Galatian. This is new to me. Thank you.
RIP Breton language, language of my parents and of my village...
Thank French nationalism fot that. I would know, I'm Catalan.
KamiSilver the french republic is a scam
It's not dead though, it's actually spoken far more than any other Celtic Langauge
Faolán Welsh is the most spoken Celtic language. Not Breton language.
@@morzhed-hoqh732 Ah, I thought there were more.. Still though 200,000 is far more than the Irish number of daily speakers of Irish - about 70k people
Celtic languages are dead
Asterix and Obelix: **laughs in celtic*
who?
@@o-o2399 Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois [asteʁiks lə ɡolwa]; lit. "Asterix the Gaul") is a bande dessinée (French or Belgian French-language comic) series about Gaulish warriors, who have adventures and fight the Roman Republic during the era of Julius Caesar.
@@JaapVanderHorst oh nice
i thought they were Greek
@@ahmetgunduz4012 i own a greco turkish friendship discord server if you want to join send me your account
It is quite interesting to imagine Celtic people coming all the way from the Southern France to Central Anatolia, Turkey. There must be lots of remnants lying deep in the ground and also quite an interesting topic for language and history researchs. I also suggest fellow Celts to search a musical instrument called "Tulum". Love and peace from Turkey! :-)
Right
@gger They came and colonised, just like Spanish people in Central American countries, Bolivia and Peru. A small muslim conquers raided and controlled lands. And native population followed their customs.
But unlike Spanish and Portuguese they weren't speaking the exactly the same language. They were speaking Oguz Turkic language. And their old language and culture disappeared or highly mixed with their local subjects.
Turkish Tulum is a bagpipe, but there is no evidence that suggests bagpipes were particularly associated with the Celts until the romantic Celtic revival.
That kind of instruments exist all over West Eurasia, from Iran to Europe and even in North Africa.
We don't know where they originated, but it's more likely they appeared first in the Middle East and where brought to the British Isles by the Romans or even later.
During the Middle ages they were common folk instruments all over Europe and west Asia, but with time they have been largely replaced by other instruments, except in remote and more isolated areas, like those where Celtic languages are still spoken, but not exclusively.
I live in Kayseri, some villages have celtic looking people in them
@@Ahmadbeik99You must mean Cesarea.
Great video, but you've gotta remember that "Celtiberian" isn't exactly the same as "Iberian Celtic". Celtiberian was a fusion of Celtic tribes with Iberian ones, whereas Iberian Celtic are the various Celtic dialects spoken in the Iberian peninsula, like Gallaecian and Cantabrian.
The language is not even animore related to celtiberians galician and portuguese are Ibero-romance languages
I really want cornish to start becoming the Cornish people’s first language, we have been plagued with English influence and our language (Kernowek) is way to valuable to loose. But, there is now an effort to start teaching young ones Cornish and I have started learning it myself 😊 m’ath Kernowek! Nos da !
The same for me, I'm breton and Breton and Cornish peoples are brothers ",ya d'ar brezhoneg ha kerneweg "(I hope u undertand)
O Bretão I think I understand 😊 prn govenek dre ni keltek mynnes kavos anserghogeth!! Do you understand that? I like how Breton and Cornish are more mutually intelligible than welsh and Cornish. Some people try to say we’re welsh when we’re not!
I mean go ahead, but at the end of the day languages die out because it’s wiped out / less convenient. Ik people come from Cornwall but is Cornish an actual ethnicity? I think preserving languages in the form of speakers and Museums and texts is brilliant but it shouldn’t be enforced if there’s a small small number of speakers. At the end of the day we are all human
wonderful. keep up the good work. cornish and breton are beautiful languages
@@PikaPluff yes it is an ethnicity, you can identify a Cornish in the census and we are a recognised minirity
This is why we cannot let minority languages die. They are the original culture of their own area and like celts they preserve a really big part of world history.
Awesome video man! Love the animation style and music
Thank you
@@ledWenceslas880 sad they are dead
I’m from spain and I feel Celt and Iberian at the same level. Also my dna says I’m a mix of both. Despite we don’t have the language we preserve the Celt culture, the music, dances and traditions are from celts.
@@angyliv8040 That is so nice to hear! Do you speak spanish or catalan or something else?
@@angyliv8040 what are you saying? Spain is one of the most romanicide countrys that exists, aur language, culture, even the name os spain España, came from the name that the romans used Hispania, moors and visigoths did way more influence in spain than the celtics, the only areas I can say they had more influence are Galicia or Euskadi.
Saludos desde Andalucía y viva Roma, esa es nuestra verdadera madre patria
Greetings from Andalucía, and long live Rome our true motherland
Are you planning to release a "History of Germanic Languages", "History of Italic/Romance Languages" and "History of Slavic Languages" any time soon?
Addis thus
ЭТА ИСТОРИЯ, С ТОЧНОСТЬЮ ДО НАОБОРОТ !!! КЕЛЬТЫ ЗАРОДИЛИСЬ В ГАЛАТИИ ГДЕ В ЭТОМ РЕГИОНЕ ФОРМИРОВАЛИСЬ АРИЙСКИЕ ЯЗЫКИ ! БРИТАНСКАЯ ЛЕТОПИСЬ 10в ГЛАСИТ,ЧТО БРИТТЫ РОДОМ ИЗ АРМЕНИИ !! ХВАТИТ ПЕРЕВОРАЧИВАТЬ ИСТОРИЮ !!!
@@edouardbarseghian5966 нука нука, ссылку на эту самую "летопись"
@@edouardbarseghian5966 Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"
@@edouardbarseghian5966 not armenians
It ’s a very unique channel! It ’s a very valuable video!
Well done. It doesn’t, however account for the Brythonic enclave that appeared in Galicia Spain around the same time as the attestation of Old Breton. Nor the probable pockets of Gaulish in the Alps up to the 800’s. But we’ll done! Thank you for sharing this
Why not? Britons spoke their language before they slowly adopted Galician. Even though we don't have any script or some sort of writings of them here, we still have a lot of places which bears their name.
SIX NATIONS ARE WE, PROUD CELTIC AND FREE
Brittany and n. Ireland are the opposite of free
@@adamender9092 the Republic is a free state 🇮🇪
Draco Distortion probably the ugliest bunch of languages tho
@@adrianbonacci8537 says the guy with an Italian last name
Draco Distortion yeah what about it? Italian is known for being a beautiful language
The ending just made me sad.
great work video maker ... as always :)
Very nice and unusual time-lapse. Thank you a lot for the effort you made for this video. I always have found this languages and their history to be very interesting.
Thank you very much
It's a shame we were discouraged from keeping the celtic languages alive. Glad to see they are finally implementing programmes to bring it back.
Sorely in need of an update! Through vigorous revitalization efforts, Manx and Cornish are not dead, but very much ALIVE!
This also gives a ludicrously late date for the beginning of Celtic languages as well. They originate in the Bronze age much closer to 2500 BC.
Much as I appreciate the effort people are making to revive these languages, I doubt we've yet reached the point that these languages should be represented on a map like this. Though not stated explicitly, even the lighly barred areas suggest a certain percentage of the people use the language in daily life. A quick search on wikipedia suggests some 3000 people can have a 'simple' conversation in Cornish for instance, whatever that means. There are some 566000 people in Cornwall, so if we assume those 3000 people all live in Cornwall (I'm not sure if this is stipulated or not), then half a percent of the population, or one person in every 189, could have a 'simple' conversation in this language. By that logic Latin may well qualify as well for inclusion on the map of Europe in the year 2019 in the Italic languages' edition of this video.
@@GrunnenEnSeyst That's fair. I recently transcribed interviews from the Isle of Man that made the situation sound quite stable, but Isle of Man is tiny by comparison.
No they are basically dead as active languages, Cornish being only known by less than 1% of the population of Cornwall, with ALL speakers being L2. Manx is also in a similar position. For a language to be alive it needs to commonly spoken in everyday life within a certain area. For both Cornish and Manx, this isn't true, therefore they are essentially dead.
Man your videos are underrated.
Agus tá an Ghaeilge ag teacht chun chinn arís in Éirinn 🎉☘️🇮🇪 “Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam” = “A country without language, is one without a soul”
An Ghaeilge go deo
And party without good irish whiskey is winder without fire. Greetings from Greece.
irish wrighting system is too much hard...
E’n eth gernewek: “tir heb eth, ew heb ena”
Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon, as we say in Welsh -
Great video, you should keep the last frame a little longer though. I like how you animate.
Thank you
RIP
Proto-Celtic 999 BC- 600 BC
Gaulish 600 BC-800
Insular Celtic 600 BC-330 BC
Leponic 600 BC-99 BC
Celtiberian 389 BC-331
Brythonic 330 BC-800
Goidelic 330 BC-800
Galatian 189 BC-421
Cumbric 801-1200
Cornish 801-1801
Manx 801-1970
Survivors:
Welsh 801
Scottish Gaelic 801
Breton 801
Irish 801
manx and cornish are back
Chilling to see the widest spread of the Celtic languages. In a few centuries after that, that was mostly the expand of Rome north of the Italic peninsula. Except Scotland and Ireland, but the whole Britannia was a bit of a stretch for them. Rome really specialized in fighting the Celts.
"Rome really specialized fighting the Celts" And it went the other way around as well. The two groups were pure rivals and i'd say bigger rivals then Rome and Carthage
@@GAMER123GAMING than*
Not then.
Πολύ καλή η παρουσίαση Κώστα, καλό μήνα.
You could add Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Canada to the Scottish region. It has a Celtic College and there are quite a few people who speak Scottish. The college has Scottish language teachers Scotland even hires a few teachers from Cape Breton to go tech Scottish in Scotland. My province PEI which is near Cape Breton used to have Irish speakers but the last one died in the 1990s I wish I had known more about him since I would have loved to learn Irish. PEI was going to be named New Ireland other rumours were it may have been called Owen Eire (something like that).
Go back to Britain.
Welsh is also spoken in small areas of Argentina
love PEI from cape breton 🤗
Usually we refer to the language as Gaelic or Scottish Gaelic, not just Scottish.
@@WistfulAZ that seems redundant. From what I understand Gaelic means Scottish in Scottish if you speak Scottish. If you don't speak it then Scottish is the name of the language in English. Similarly the Irish language in Irish is Gaeilge. Whatever works though as long as everyone knows what the other person means.
This should be show in my school more often, especially in History class, because it help understand how tribal people are moving in which direction
3 years later and i still agree.
So called "history experts" yet do not understand the fact that ethnic groups can move.
Awsome video very interesting!
i hope you will make some more maps like these. They are very interesting.
There are about 2000 Cornish first language speaks and 1000 second language speakers. I’m happy that it’s definitely on the rise! Also in st ives where I live. I can actually go by my day using Cornish in shops and talking to people, can you update this video please and add where Cornish speaks are now located?
An mhaith! Well done for promoting your language from Ireland!
Daniel aha Meur ras! (Thank you) you can really see the resemblance between Irish Gaelic and Cornish (understandable as they are Celtic) meur ras prob Kernow!
@@alexilsley897 Cornish and Gaelic are very different. They are different branches of Celtic which diverged a long time ago. Cornish is most closely related to Breton (they are very similar) and Welsh. Your estimates of number of Cornish speakers are wildly optimistic. There are probably under 500 fluent speakers. Most people who profess a knowledge know only a few simple phrases. Some surveys classify those who simply know Kernow means Cornwall as 'having a knowledge of Cornish'.
It's so interesting to see how long those little pockets of languages survived, before fading away. Even so, I suspect their language impacted the evolution of the dominant language in the region in some way.
One criticism: You showed Pictish as a non-Celtic language. Although it once was considered non-Celtic, it now is viewed as a Brythonic Celtic language, now that more information has been discovered on it.
It would be interesting to see different language groups and their expansion and withdrawal overlap.
If the Gauls never latinised, perhaps a celtic language would be the international language today instead of English, almost can't imagine it
i mean there's still the franks
@@me67galaxylife those are Germanic people, they spoke Frankish, an old Germanic language
@@Jerimbo i mean yeah, that's a no brainer
what i meant is they're still a threat
IF....😖
No, anglo-saxon from germany would have invaded england anyway
Awesome work! I really like the way you animate the videos such as this or the one you made about the Greek language. Are you considering ever uploading one about the Germanic or Romance language families?
Thank you. First I would like to make the Romance languages, but it is a difficult project and i want a world map after the 16th century.
Nice, looking forward to that!
Indeed, in medieval period a lot of western Romance languages are appeared (and four Eastern Romance). It is a difficult project, I haven't still thought the way to make it
@@DarkenMapper03 discord.gg/Ub5Vb9N
Nice!
Galatian was spoken way longer than Gaulish(thus being close) up to the 6th century
Uralic and Keltic people are the ones that have suffered the most in Europe
Baltic people as well
@@saudade_9. Yes
Nozvat doh d'an oll! Mon' a ra mad 'r bed genoh? 😉
Instead of saying we have to preserve our languages, we should actually use it, learn it and speak it. Also here, ama iwe ! :)
Also, to all other people: try to learn one (or more) as well, especially if you like celtic cultures. The languages have some very interesting features, uncommon in Europe:
-verb first
-conjugation of prepositions
-no verb have
-mutations (change of letters)
I'm (part) Breton (speaking it) and learning Scottish Gaelic at the moment (Gàidhlig). Super interesting!! 😀😁
In Ireland, Irish (Gaeilge) is cumpolsary in both primary and secondary education at least, and is one of our official languages, so the language will live, even if there are less native speakers. All road signs and many government documents are in Irish also.
@@Daniel-vj9oq that's awesome!
Good video
Diolch am yr fideo addysgol o Gymru! Thank you for the educational video from Cymru! 🏴
THE WELSH 🏴 FLAG CHANGES TO THE ENGLISH 🏴 FLAG WHEN YOU TRANSLATE IT LMAO
Y CYMRAEG 🏴 FLAG NEWIDIADAU I'R SAESNEG 🏴 FLAG WRTH EI Gyfieithu LMAO
@@Teapoid When I translated yours all the flags disappear lol
in Spain, the Cantabri in the north were still fought by the Visigoths around the 600, they weren't latinized yet
I am from a village in the centre of Spain and I have always been surprised by the word "Basca" as a synonym for Anxiety, Disquiet or Restlessness used in these small villages and by country people like my grandmother.
I was surprised to discover that this word is Celtic and comes from "waskā", in Welsh "gwâsg" and Breton "gwask". The last of a Celtiberian language extinct almost 2 millennia ago
By the way, there is a good chance the proto-irish arrived Ireland even way before 600 BC, since the Tandragee Idol, seems to date around the 10th century, it is inspired by the Hallstat artstyle.
Beatiful :)
In Turkey, we have gingers. it is quite rare but there are some. maybe they have descended from those galatians.
Yes, the region of Galatia in Turkey is named for the Galatians of Thrace. Most know them for the pastoral Epistle that the Apostle Paul addressed to them and their early church. Certainly is a long way from their homelands, needless to say.
I mean, most of the Turkish people aren't Turks from the steppes, just Greeks/Armenians turkified through the centuries. This includes the Galatians, the Isaurians and other peoples, so you might be true
@@kenobi6257 and the Greeks in Anatolia were hellenised Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians etc. And they in turn were indo-europeanised peoples which we don't know the names or languages of. And they... no I think I'll stop there 🤣
@@fartreta reality is indeed real complicated like that
Fun fact: There is a very important and historical tower named Galata Kulesi.
Finally someone who doesn’t put celts as far as northern Netherlands and Germany,because those were Germanic territories
Top 10 Saddest Moments In History
It's actually kind of sad to watch lol.
Well that's history, things replacing other things. Nothing is eternal and today things are still changing, and will forever be changing. Still cool to remember them.
We will all speak a chinesed arabo-latino-english mixture in a few centuries :)
@Finn MickCool It was just a joke and certainly not something I wish. Take it easy. Unfortunately, the languages I already speak have killed other local languages that existed in the past. Which is a sad thing.
@@OptLab survival of the fittest, languages are cool and must be preserved, at least in some form of recordings/dictionaries, but we can't be sad of such a thing. I would be sad if we lost El Quijote, which is really a masterpiece and a gem in culture's standards. But you don't have to read it in my language to enjoy it :)
Imagine being this weak and thinking you cant change things.
@@OptLab disgusting
You definitely missed an opportunity to document the Gaelic settlement of Iceland, from the 5th Century until the Norse invasion.
As a Celt, I want my brothers to keep their language forevermore. I don't speak any of them as I don't come from a Gaelic-speaking community (my mother is Bantu) but I feel it is more than important to keep them alive. Therefore I have plans to learn Celtic languages. I thought Welsh would be a good starter even though I'm Scottish.
Which if the 6 is your father?
ur black lol
Supposedly, Irish speakers are slowly on the rise in Ireland. If I am correct learning of the language is mandatory in the schools.
Ogham is the earliest form of writing in Ireland, it dates to around 4th century A.D. and was in use for around 500 years.
The earliest stages of this progression are probably off a bit. Newer archaeological evidence agrees with classical sources in putting the Celtic homeland at the Atlantic margins of what is now France and Spain and in the British isles, from which it spread eastward. The early westward spread of what you have marked as proto-Celtic was probably actually a pre-Celtic dialect of IE most closely related to proto-Italic.
Could you next do like armenian or hellenic language? I would love that
I have made a video about the history of the Hellenic language and i would like make armenian.
It was related to Belgian Celtic languages. Belgian Celts from the tribe of the Neviërs, Atrebates en Morini lived next to the Brythonic Celts and were a family tribe for them. Winston has been found by those Belgian Celts.
Great video!
Blissful, blessful, wonderful, and extraordinary
The celts have had one the slowest genocides in history.hope they make it
Only languages
@@rexchiliae their culture*
Μπράβο Κώστα. Ειλικρινά, πολύ προχωρημένη δουλειά κάνεις!
Ευχαριστώ πολύ
@@CostasMelas βλεπεις οτι συζητουσαμε στην ανατολικη μεσογειο?
Πράγματι, από το Ιράν μέχρι το Αιγαίο, μοιάζει ανησυχητικό το σκηνικό.
Nice video as usual 🔥 but i think u missed brythonic migrants in Galicia, spain
It’s very likely the Irish came directly from Spain not the bythronics. Irish is a Celtic like celtiberian. It was also written in the Irish book of Invasions
@@siofra3819 yeah maybe, anyway I mean a celtic arrival till the 8th century was missing. Yes I know it is celtic like celtiberian, but I remember reading that the same brittons who fled to france someof them fled to spain
The celtic languages are part of my heritage - even for an English man but they are so different to my everyday speech as to be completely foreign. Latin languages are far more familiar because their words live in modern English but poor celtic languages got pushed out .
Кстати корнуэльский язык снова живой! На нём конечно очень мало людей говорят (4000 примерно), но он жив!
I like how the colors slowly shifted.
Fun fact: Asterix & Obelix would have spoken Gaulish as they were well... Gauls. Also I have a question, did Gaulish have an influence on the later Breton language? Because it does seem that by the time that the Britons journeyed to the Armorica (not "America" mind you, but "Armorica") France region circa 500, Gaulish was almost extinct but with very light greenish stripes from what I see in this map. So is there evidence of the Gaulish influence on Breton language? If so, what kind?
Tons of Inaccuracies. But the biggest gripe that I have is that the Celtic Gallaeci in Galicia survived and spoke Gallaecian as the dominant language there until the 9th Century and you seemed to have forgotten about them completely with them not appearing on the map at all with the rest of the Celtic languages.
Trugarez 'vit da video !
However, even if I know that mapping languages is never easy, the last native breton speakers on the coast of the current "Loire-Atlantique" (southernmost breton country a.k.a. Bro Naoned/Peï de Nauntt/Pays Nantais) died in the 60's. However breton is still taught -to kids ands adults- and used in daily life by a minority in this country (and especially in big cities like Naoned, Sant Nazer, Sant Ervlan and Gwennrann)
Irish is back on the rise due to it being compulsary in schools. Everyone can speak a bit of Irish and most can have a conversation in Irish. I'd Ireland could be at least shaded
The dialects spoken in southeast Netherlands, east Belgium, Luxembourg, The area of Germany bordering to the 3 aforementioned areas west of the Rhine, Lotharingen in France and North west of Switzerland all have their roots in Gaulish, but influenced by the languages that became the standard later on.
A very interesting video. Thank you. I was hoping you might have included some mention of the Tarim mummies (or at least their language), found in far north-west China. Textile authorities have studied the remains of the clothing of the Caucasian mummies and determined the fabrics were Celtic in origin. Did Celtic influence really reach that far east, or were the Turim Celts an aberration?
They were Tocharians, who may have lived close to Celts for a good while, hence the shared Tartan cloth, but notice they don't were any Torks.
@@richardlongues4695 Thank you. That revelation is interesting. I never realized that Tocharians were white. Of course, I have no idea how close Tocharian might have been to Celtic. But that Tocharians might have appropriated textile weaving from Celts opens the door to other cultural appropriations.
@@jasondaniel918 tocharians was indoeuropean tribe, obviusly was white( with clear-eyed and hair)
I remember a joke a long time ago.
A Chinese Irish language major student went to Ireland for the first time. He went to the police station to ask for directions in Irish. The police told him：
Don't speak Chinese with me, I don't understand
Yes, more than 90% of Irish people today have forgotten this language
Tá sé sin brónach, beidh an Ghaeilge ceannasach arís, tá súil agam
Simang Cheung: Maybe it was a joke some time ago, but there is a short film (13 mins) on TH-cam, "Yu Ming is ainm dom" which has the same story and is quite funny th-cam.com/video/JqYtG9BNhfM/w-d-xo.html
im from turkey and we have "galata tower" in istanbul, not sure if it related to celts but it is really amazing to find celtic roots in anatolia. i wonder what encouraged them to migrate here, because there are already huge civilasition here when they arrive, they must be very effective to set their stronghold here. i see very white skin and orange hair people sometime in central anatolia, they could be related to galatians?
@Gewis very interesting, thanks
@Lord Super Kami Guru wow very interesting info. Thanks
@gger all af anatolia was hitite and phrigian before greeks so turks are turkified and greekified hitities and phyrigians
@@koseku3 i own a greco turkish friendship discord server if you want to join send me your account
@@theodoruspantelides8661 i do not use discord often but thanks
Quick question: Which of the continental Celtic languages do you think are P-Celtic? Is it only Gaulish, or does it include other languages too?
Something I didn't see in the video, a Brythonic language was brought to some regions of Northern Iberia around the same time celtic languages migrated to Northwest France as people fled the invading Anglos, Jutes and Saxons, eventually this language would die out but they lasted long enough to impact the culture and even briefly include Galicia in the 'Celtic Nations' before it was removed again.
There was a very small migration compared to Brittany.
Then the “Celtic culture” in north of Iberia was mainly created by a romantic and nationalist movements later in the 17/18th century. In summary: it was a way to singularise these regions from Madrid/Lisbon.
Did they not speak a Celtic like the Irish
So lucky that my family still speaks irish .....
Cymraeg 🏴❤️
I believe that there were two migrations of proto Celtic peoples. One via North of the Black Sea westwards via Bulgaria and the Danube to Central Europe. And the second South of the Black Sea thro Turkey and seaward via coastal Mediterranean, the Spanish coast and the Athlantic to Ireland and Scotland.
Any thoughts about Pictish? Was it considered Brythonic in this video?
Yes, it is part of the Brythonic
A lot of Geografical objects in the Balkans have Celtic names. Rivers, lakes, mountains ect. carry Celtic names even thousands of years after Celts disappeared from the Balkans. Also, gusle, a traditional folk music instrument in Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Albania is of Celtic origin (gusle being strings in Celtic). Even modern day cities in the Balkans like Belgrade for example were built by Celts! The Celts maybe aren't the largest people group in Europe, but they have left an amazing legacy.
PS please do Turkic languages.
Thank you for the additional information.
@@CostasMelas no problem👍
you are very right...many red head people in the balkan is of celtic ancestry...i think...mostly in kosovo and bosnia
@@jorham1 There are barely any red heads in Bosnia and Kosovo
@@doga9670 I used to have a Albanian friend who had a redbeard. Which was rather interesting
Celtiberians were only found in North Eastern Spain while the Gallaecians were found in North Western Spain. Not all Celts from Iberia were Celtiberians.
Comme ailleurs, en Catalogne par exemple, il y eut très certainement une succession de peuples qui se mélangèrent... Des pré-indoeuropéens, des liguro-celtes, des Ibéro-Basques... Des traces restent, très nombreuses dans la toponymie.
Slavs : my life suck. Celts : what about me
We know about the celtic migrations into the italian peninsula and Anatolia but what de we know about the languages in the iberian peninsula or the british isles prior to the "expansion" westward projected in the video? Isn't it possible that these areas have had celtic speaking peoples from the very beginning?