Proto-Goidelic
E27135
Proto-Goidelic is the reconstructed early Celtic language stage that gave rise to the Goidelic branch, including Primitive Irish and later Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx.
Aliases (1)
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Celtic language
→
proto-language → reconstructed language → |
| branchOf | Goidelic → |
| category | historical language stage → |
| follows | Proto-Celtic → |
| gaveRiseTo |
Irish
→
Manx → Primitive Irish → Scottish Gaelic → |
| glottocode | none (not assigned as reconstructed stage) → |
| hasAncestor | Proto-Celtic → |
| hasDescendant |
Irish
→
Manx → Scottish Gaelic → |
| hasFeature |
VSO basic word order (inherited tendency)
→
consonant quality contrasts (palatal vs non‑palatal, in development) → inflected prepositions (in development) → initial consonant mutations (incipient) → lenition of stops → loss of final syllables (apocope, syncope, in development) → |
| hasMorphologicalChange |
development of conjugated prepositions
→
restructuring of verb inflection toward Old Irish patterns → |
| hasPhonologicalChange |
lenition of Proto-Celtic stops between vowels
→
vocalic changes leading toward Old Irish vowel system → |
| ISO639-3Code | none → |
| languageFamily |
Celtic
→
Goidelic → Indo-European language family →
surface form: "Indo-European"
|
| notAttestedIn | native written texts → |
| partOf | Goidelic branch of Celtic → |
| precedes |
Old Irish
→
Primitive Irish → |
| reconstructedFrom |
Old Irish
→
Primitive Irish inscriptions → comparative Celtic linguistics → |
| region |
Ireland
→
Isle of Man (crown dependency) →
surface form: "Isle of Man"
West of Scotland →
surface form: "western Scotland"
|
| sharesFeatureWith | other Insular Celtic languages → |
| status | extinct (reconstructed only) → |
| studiedIn |
Celtic studies
→
historical linguistics → |
| subclassOf |
Goidelic
→
surface form: "Goidelic language"
Indo-European language → Insular Celtic language → |
| timeDepth | 1st millennium BCE to early 1st millennium CE (approximate) → |
| writingSystem | none (unwritten, reconstructed) → |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Proto-Irish (reconstructed)"