CLT 3180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Celtic Languages, Celtic Congress, The Irish News
1 Mar 2016
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Minority language: spoken by the minority of the population of an area: linguistic minorities. Autochthonous languages: a language that is native to an area and is spoken by the indigenous people, and has been reduced to a minority language. National languages are usually the languages of the colonists that took over the land. The celtic languages are spoken mostly in the united kingdom and ireland, but also in some areas of mainland europe (northern. France, northern spain), the eastern coast of north american (cape breton, maritimes, massachusetts), argentina, australia, and new zealand. Currently only 1. 4 million people (less than 1% of the world population) currently speaks a celtic language. Wales is the only language not currently listed as endangered by. Unesco: what is wales doing that others aren"t, possibly historic: wales was the last of the celtic countries to be formally taken over by england.
