
among the Indo-European languages, the Celtic group is closest to Italic there are also features that are common with the Indo-Iranian languages, with the Hittite, with the Tocharian, and therefore the Celtic languages are of particular interest for the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages. Many features of phonetics and morphology in the Celtic languages are common with Latin and other Italic languages, i.e. The most characteristic features of the Celtic languages lie in the field of phonetics. Continental Celtic languages are represented by Gaulish island languages are divided into two groups: it is Brittonic, including Welsh, Cornish and Breton, and Goidelic, including Irish, Scottish (Gaelic, or Gaelic) and Manx.



CELTIC LANGUAGES, a group of Indo-European languages spoken in northern and northwestern Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, and the Canadian state of Nova Scotia.
