| Nuclear Celtic | |
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| Geographic distribution | Formerly widespread in much of Europe and central Anatolia; today Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, the Isle of Man, Chubut Province (Y Wladfa), and Nova Scotia |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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| Glottolog | nucl1715 |
The Nuclear Celtic[1] languages, also known as Gallo-Insular Celtic,[2] Gallo-Brythonic–Goidelic,[3] and, ambiguously in terms of the position of Lepontic, North Celtic[4] or Core Celtic,[5] are a group of Celtic languages once spoken across Europe and the British Isles, reaching even Anatolia, but nowadays restricted to the Celtic nations. It consists of all Celtic languages that are not Hispano-Celtic, namely the Insular Celtic languages together with the extinct Gaulish and Lepontic languages.
The Nuclear Celtic languages separated from Hispano-Celtic around 900 BC, possibly due to Phoenician influence causing Hispano-Celtic to drift away from a common Celtic cultural sphere.[3]
- ^ Eska 2017.
- ^ McCone 2006, p. 277.
- ^ a b Koch 2020, p. 45.
- ^ Jørgensen 2022.
- ^ Stifter 2023, pp. 172–173.
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