Celtic languages: References & Edit History

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H. Lewis and H. Pedersen, A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar (1937), is a survey of the entire field. The early history of the British group is discussed in detail by K.H. Jackson, Language and History in Early Britain (1953); for the later history of Welsh and Breton, J. Morris Jones, A Welsh Grammar (1913), and F. Gourvil, Langue et littérature bretonnes (1952), give useful information. P. Berresford Ellis, The Cornish Language and Its Literature (1974), deals with the early period, as well as with the recent Cornish language revival movement. R. Thurneysen, Grammar of Old Irish, rev. ed. (1946), is a classic among linguistic handbooks; for the later development of Irish, T.F. O’Rahilly, Irish Dialects Past and Present (1932), is full of information and contains chapters on Scottish Gaelic and Manx. B.O Cuiv (ed.), A View of the Irish Language (1969), containing 12 essays by various hands, maps, and illustrations; and D. Greene, The Irish Language (1966), are directed to the general reader rather than to the linguist. The relevant sections of Glanville Price, The Present Position of Minority Languages in Western Europe (1969), give full bibliographies of works dealing with the political and social status of the surviving Celtic languages.

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