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n. - Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.

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  • As the type of Celtic speech that has penetrated farthest to the west is that known as the Goidelic or Irish, it has not unreasonably been thought that this must have...
  • Then there are two forms there that are more Goidelic than Brythonic.
  • They belong to the Goidelic or Q-Celtic branch of Celtic languages, AFAIK, and Welsh, Breton, and Cornish are Brythonic or P-Celtic.
  • The name Sorcha Faal "comes from the ancient Gaeilge branch of the Goidelic languages of Ireland" and has the meaning of: Sorcha: She Who Brings Light; Faal: the Dark...
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