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Each of the six nations has its own Celtic language. In Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales these have been spoken continuously through time, while Cornwall and the Isle of Man have languages that were spoken into modern times but later died as spoken community languages. [9] [10] In the latter two regions, however, language revitalisation movements have led to the adoption of these languages by adults and produced a number of native speakers. [11] Patagonian Welsh is spoken principally in Y Wladfa in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, with sporadic speakers elsewhere in Argentina. Estimates of the number of Welsh speakers range from 1,500 [20] to 5,000. [21] Celtic languages [ edit ]

Competitions are held between the Celtic nations in sports such as rugby union ( Pro14—formerly known as the Celtic League), athletics (Celtic Cup) and association football (the Nations Cup—also known as the Celtic Cup). [31] [32]

However, there might be Premier League interest given that form he showed during his previous loan. Crystal, David (2010). The Cambridge encyclopedia of language (3rded.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521516983. OCLC 499073732. Koch, John (2006). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABL-CIO. p.2128. ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0 . Retrieved 24 November 2011. The Celtic names for each nation in each language illustrate some of the similarity between the languages. Despite differences in orthography, there are many sound and lexical correspondences between the endonyms and exonyms used to refer to the Celtic nations. He’s not getting much of a look in at Celtic but Mikey Johnston has been impressing for the Republic of Ireland since making the switch there.

Italy is home to the Lepontic, the oldest attested Celtic language (from the 6th century BC). [59] Anciently spoken in Switzerland and in Northern-Central Italy, from the Alps to Umbria. [60] [61] [62] [63] According to the Recueil des Inscriptions Gauloises, more than 760 Gaulish inscriptions have been found throughout present-day France—with the notable exception of Aquitaine—and in Italy. [64] [65] In Wales, the Welsh language is a core curriculum (compulsory) subject, which all pupils study. [13] Additionally, 20% of schoolchildren in Wales attend Welsh medium schools, where they are taught entirely in the Welsh language. [14] In the Republic of Ireland, all school children study Irish as one of the three core subjects until the end of secondary school, and 7.4% of primary school education is through Irish medium education, which is part of the Gaelscoil movement. [14] In the Isle of Man, there is one Manx-medium primary school, and all schoolchildren have the opportunity to learn Manx. [ citation needed] Other regions [ edit ] Nathalie Koble, Jeunesse et genèse du royaume arthurien, Paradigme, 2007, ISBN 2-86878-270-1, p. 145

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These areas of Europe are sometimes referred to as the "Celt belt" or "Celtic fringe" because of their location generally on the western edges of the continent, and of the states they inhabit (e.g. Brittany is in the northwest of France, Cornwall is in the south west of Great Britain, Wales in western Great Britain and the Gaelic-speaking parts of Ireland and Scotland are in the west of those countries). [44] [45] Additionally, this region is known as the "Celtic Crescent" because of the near crescent shaped position of the nations in Europe. [46] Endonyms and Celtic exonyms [ edit ] The Jambos scout Australia extensively so will have been well aware of the forward's talents before he even reached these shores. The term Celtic nations derives from the linguistics studies of the 16th century scholar George Buchanan and the polymath Edward Lhuyd. [42] As Assistant Keeper and then Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1691–1709), Lhuyd travelled extensively in Great Britain, Ireland and Brittany in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Noting the similarity between the languages of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales, which he called " P-Celtic" or Brythonic, the languages of Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland, which he called " Q-Celtic" or Goidelic, and between the two groups, Lhuyd published Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain, from Travels through Wales, Cornwall, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland in 1707. His Archaeologia Britannica concluded that all six languages derived from the same root. Lhuyd theorised that the root language descended from the languages spoken by the Iron Age tribes of Gaul, whom Greek and Roman writers called Celtic. [43] Having defined the languages of those areas as Celtic, the people living in them and speaking those languages became known as Celtic too. There is some dispute as to whether Lhuyd's theory is correct. Nevertheless, the term Celtic to describe the languages and peoples of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland was accepted from the 18th century and is widely used today. [42] Lhuyd, Edward (1707). Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain, from Travels through Wales, Cornwall, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. Oxford.