Goidelic languages
Hibernian linguistic family branch
Goidelic languages are a branch of the Celtic language family comprising Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx.
These languages developed from Old Irish and are sometimes called Q-Celtic because they retained the original Indo-European *kw sound (becoming a hard c or k) where the Brythonic Celtic languages like Welsh changed it to p.
Irish has the most speakers today, while Manx nearly died out before revival efforts began.
She studied the Goidelic languages to trace her family's roots in the Scottish Highlands.
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