CELTIC LANGUAGE

The Celtic language family is the group of languages and idioms spoken in the western area of the Britain archipelago, in particular in the states of Eire and Scotland, while they are official languages in the "celtic nations" of Ireland and Wales and spoken even in the Cornwall and Brittany ancient regions. There were attested other "continental" celtic languages in the areas populated for thousands years by Celts people in Western Europe, such as the Celtiberian and the Gaulish idioms, all included in the wade families of the indoeuropeans language families (P.I.E.) spreaded all around Europe and part of the Kentum group P.I.E. european languages.

The celtic languages have been spoken in Europe since the first settlement of Celts, firstly attested trace in VI century BC they are witten on left-to-right orizzontally with a latin Alphabet of 26 letters used all along the history of European integration until today. Even if the originary people disappeared or adopted the new Italic or German languages starting from the I century AD, the Celtic survived in the Britannia diocesi and provinces of the Roman Empire, characterizing the Britons people and the nations they occupied, in the Gaelic nations and in the northern hispanic ancient regions of Galicia, Asturias and Cantabria all included in the roman province of Gallaecia.

Is Gaelic still spoken today? By following the history of European integration and of the Celtic languages, they are divided in two main groups: the Goidelic idioms officially spoken by Irish and Scottish people, included the Isle of Man inhabitants (Manx dialet); the Brittonic languages as the Breton, still used in the Brittany region and the Nantes sourrounding department (the city capital of the Armorica Kingdom and the Brittany Duchy); the Welsh, local language of Wales and Stratclyde regions for centuries under the dominion of the Gwynedd dinasty within the ancient Cambria kingdom; finally the Celtic idiom Cornish used in the other historical region of Cornwall but gone extinted. Probably the Celtic languages are still practiced by the Celts communities descendants migrated towards the Commonwealth nations of Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand or the United States of America.

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