Proto-Celtic
E4692
Proto-Celtic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages, spoken in prehistoric times before their diversification into distinct branches such as Goidelic and Brythonic.
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Celtic language
→
proto-language → reconstructed language → |
| ancestorOf |
Breton
→
Brythonic languages → Celtiberian → Continental Celtic languages → Cornish → Gaulish → Goidelic languages → Insular Celtic languages → Lepontic → Manx → Middle Irish → Modern Irish → Noric → Old Irish → Scottish Gaelic → Welsh → |
| developedFrom |
Late Proto-Indo-European
→
|
| hasDescendant |
modern Celtic languages
→
|
| hasFeature |
ablaut system
→
grammatical gender → inflected prepositions → initial consonant clusters → lenition of consonants in daughter languages → noun cases → verb conjugation by person and number → |
| hasLexicalInfluenceOn |
toponymy in Europe
→
|
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
complex verbal morphology
→
inflected adjectives → inflected nouns → |
| hasPhonologicalChange |
loss of Proto-Indo-European laryngeals
→
merger of aspirated and plain voiced stops → |
| hasWritingSystem |
none
→
|
| languageBranch |
Celtic languages
→
|
| languageFamily |
Indo-European languages
→
|
| reconstructedBy |
comparative method
→
|
| spokenIn |
Alpine region
→
Central Europe → Western Europe → parts of Gaul → parts of Iberian Peninsula → prehistoric Europe → |
| studiedIn |
Celtic studies
→
historical linguistics → |
| subfamilyOf |
Proto-Indo-European
→
|
| timeDepth |
early 1st millennium BCE
→
late 2nd millennium BCE → |
Referenced by (8)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Gaulish
→
Goidelic → Proto-Goidelic → Welsh → |
hasAncestor |
|
Old Irish
→
|
developedFrom |
|
Proto-Goidelic
→
|
follows |
|
Proto-Indo-European
→
|
hasDescendant |
|
Proto-Italic
→
|
lexicalSimilarityWith |