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What are the differences between Gaelic and Brythonic Celtic languages/culture?
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Gaelic and Brythonic share similar grammatics and syntax, the main difference between them lies in the vocabulary and on the writting system. Brythonic languages have a very phonetic writting system while Gaelic has a very confusing one. Other than that, Brythonic is a P-Celtic language, while Gaelic is Q-Celtic, what means Brythonic preserved p*/b* sounds while in Gaelic it shifted to g*/k*/c*.
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@Uhtred how similar is modern Welsh to Old British?
...and to Cumbric?
how many changes have taken place since it was widely spoken in Britain?
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ex. Gaelic-Mac, means "son of" as in MacDonald
Welsh-Map, means "son of" shortened to Ap' as in Ap'Howell/ Powell
Welsh-Pen "head" as in Pendragon (head dragon)
Gaelic Cenn" head" as in Kennedy (head like a helmet)
this is where the phrase "mind your p's and q's " originally came from, so I've heard
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Many changes took place, but all in all Brythonic remained quite a preserved language since Antiquity. Most of influences in Old Brythonic comes from Latin, from the times of the Roman Invasion of Britannia. Maybe that's why I find so many similarities between my Romance language (Portuguese) and Modern Welsh.
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The Celtic languages are the closest living relation to the Romance or Italic languages. They are considered part of the Italo-Celtic family. Which is why there's a lot of similarity between them and languages derived from vulgar Latin.
Cumbric was basically Welsh. In fact, it was Welsh.
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