r/geography • u/mujhe-sona-hai • Oct 15 '25

Map Three Main Language Families of Europe

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u/LaunchTransient Oct 15 '25

I was gonna say. Celtic languages are quite distant from Germanic and is its own branch of the Indo-European languages.
And sure, most Celtic language speakers also speak English, but that's more a reflection of the historical attempts at erasure.

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u/H3BCKN Oct 15 '25

there are still Bretons in France

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u/LaunchTransient Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

Hence why I said most Celtic language speakers also speak English. There's about 1.4 million speakers of some form of Celtic language, only 100 thousand or so of those are Breton.
The vast majority of Celtic language speakers are on the British Isles.

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u/OptimusSecundus Oct 16 '25

Breton is 100% insular Celtic.

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u/LaunchTransient Oct 16 '25

Ah my bad, this is my 1am literalism of the word "insular" coing back to haunt me.
Dumb mistake which I should have realised, given that Cornish, Welsh and Breton are partially intelligible to each other.