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November 16 2009, 21:00 PM

Aren't all Celtic languages the same?

Apart from Manx, you can say things like ''tá sé fear'' in that language.

November 18 2009, 16:40 PM

you can't use "tá sé" with a noun; you have to use "is"

"Is" is used when equating anything...."x" ="y" or "x" is a "y"

You use "tá sé" with adjectives tá sé mór

("Is" is for first order determination
"tá" is second order determination)

November 18 2009, 16:57 PM

franc 91 wrote:The best person to ask about that is Pwyll (Loig), but there things such as mutations, not having the direct equivalent of the verb 'to have' and so on, that are typically found in Welsh, Breton, Cornish as well as in the three Gaelic languages. That doesn't mean to say that they all understand each other, they don't.

Oh, I wans't saying we could understand each other

I tried that.

I mean't that Celtic languages had alot in common, Gaelic have more with each other in Brythonic the same..

like, initial consontant mutations, the use of prepositions, syntax, vocal inflection etc.

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