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- Reconstructed languageProto-Celtic is a reconstructed language. Its words and roots are not directly attested in any written works, but have been reconstructed through the comparative method, which finds regular similarities between languages that cannot be explained by coincidence or word-borrowing, and extrapolates ancient forms from these similarities.Ancestors: Proto-Indo-EuropeanCanonical name: Proto-CelticLanguage code: cel-proLanguage family: Celticen.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Proto-Celtic_language
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Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is not attested in writing, but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method. Proto-Celtic is generally thought to have been spoken between
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See moreProto-Celtic is mostly dated to the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1200–900 BC. The Proto-Celtic word for 'iron', traditionally reconstructed as *īsarnom, in particular, has long been taken as an indication that the divergence into
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See moreThe Leiden University has compiled etymological dictionaries of various IE languages, a project supervised by Alexander Lubotsky and which includes a Proto-Celtic dictionary by Ranko Matasović. Those dictionaries published by Brill in the
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See moreThe phonological changes from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) to Proto-Celtic (PC) may be summarized as follows. The changes are roughly in chronological order, with changes that
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The following consonants have been reconstructed for Proto-Celtic (PC):
Type Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar plain labialized Plosive b t d k ɡ kʷ ɡʷ Nasal m n Fricative ɸ s x Approximant l j w Trill r
Allophones of plosives...
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