The Celtic Languages: A Linguistic Introduction

Harvard FAS

Celtic languages are today spoken primarily in western Britain, Brittany, Ireland and Scotland, but originally they were spoken across the whole of western Europe before the spread of the Roman Empire. This course explores the sources for the Celtic languages, their Indo-European origins, and their historical development from the earliest evidence through to the modern languages. After a survey of the different types of evidence available to us and an overview of their development, we…