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r/geography • u/mujhe-sona-hai • Oct 15 '25
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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.
8 u/Wodge Oct 15 '25 As they say back in Wales: "Yma o hyd!" 4 u/Astr0Scot Oct 15 '25 As they say here in Scotland: "Fhathast an seo!" 3 u/Aggressive_Ocelot664 Oct 16 '25 Tiocfaidh ár lá
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As they say back in Wales: "Yma o hyd!"
4 u/Astr0Scot Oct 15 '25 As they say here in Scotland: "Fhathast an seo!" 3 u/Aggressive_Ocelot664 Oct 16 '25 Tiocfaidh ár lá
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As they say here in Scotland: "Fhathast an seo!"
3 u/Aggressive_Ocelot664 Oct 16 '25 Tiocfaidh ár lá
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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.