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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proto-Celtic canonical | 11 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Celtic language
ⓘ
proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Breton
ⓘ
Celtic languages ⓘ
surface form:
Brythonic languages
Celtiberian ⓘ Continental Celtic languages ⓘ Cornish ⓘ Gaulish ⓘ Goidelic ⓘ
surface form:
Goidelic languages
Insular Celtic languages ⓘ Lepontic ⓘ Manx ⓘ Middle Irish ⓘ Modern Irish ⓘ Noric ⓘ Old Irish ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ Wales ⓘ
surface form:
Welsh
|
| developedFrom |
Proto-Indo-European
ⓘ
surface form:
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 language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| reconstructedBy | comparative method ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Alps
ⓘ
surface form:
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 (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.