Talk:Celtic languages

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New hypothesis for the origin of the Celtic languages

New hypothesis for the origin of the Celtic languages: Article 173.88.246.138 (talk) 05:24, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

That article indicates that there is genetic evidence of a second major wave of Indo-European migration to Britain and that it’s related to Gauls. That is a good argument for the replacement of Q-Celtic speakers in Britain (i.e., the first IE wave of migration which continued on throughout Britain and Ireland) by P-Celtic speakers. Gortaleen (talk) 11:47, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Very early days for this, & we wouldn't put anything in based on press reports. Linguists, archaeology & dna people tend not to see eye-to-eye on such matters, especially as neither digging nor dna analysis actually tell you what languages were spoken. Johnbod (talk) 11:56, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

I’m noting that editors should be prudent in claims made in the article. Traditional “history” - based ultimately on the Book of Invasions - is soon going to be upended by serious academics using genetic genealogy as data to help develop more reliable theories.

For example, see the Kurgan Hypothesis vs the theory of migration of Indo-European people circa 5000 years ago. Gortaleen (talk) 22:53, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Pictish

On the list, "Possibly Celtic languages", i cut out Pictish on the grounds that it is pretty much known to be Celtic. Okay?--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 15:10, 20 January 2022 (UTC)