List of Indo-European Languages - Celtic Languages

Celtic Languages

  • Continental Celtic (all extinct; a paraphyletic grouping)
    • Gaulish
    • Lepontic
    • Galatian
    • Celtiberian
    • Tartessian
  • Insular Celtic
    • Goidelic
      • Irish
      • Scottish Gaelic
      • Manx
      • Shelta (cant)
    • Brythonic
      • Welsh
      • Breton
      • Cornish
      • Cumbric
      • Ivernic (hypothetical)
      • Pictish (disputed – possibly a pre-Indo-European remnant language)

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