What are the Celtic Languages?
Q: What are the Celtic Languages?
A: The Celtic Languages are a language family in the Indo-European languages.
Q: How many Celtic languages are still spoken today?
A: There are six Celtic languages still spoken in the world today, in north-western Europe.
Q: What two groups do the six Celtic languages fall into?
A: The six Celtic languages are divided into two groups, the Goidelic (or Gaelic) languages and the Brythonic (or British) languages.
Q: What three Goidelic languages are still spoken?
A: The three Goidelic languages still spoken are Irish, Scottish, and Manx.
Q: Where is Welsh mainly spoken?
A: Welsh is spoken everywhere throughout Wales, but it is the first language for people mainly in the North and West of Wales, in an area that some people call "the Bro Gymraeg".
Q: Which Brythonic language became extinct in 18th century?
A: Cornish became extinct in the 18th century, but some people have started to speak it again now.
Q: Where can you find native speakers of Scottish Gaelic outside Scotland?
A: Scottish Gaelic also has a native community of speakers in Canada, where it was once widely spoken, and there are Welsh-speakers in Patagonia, Argentina.
