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WHAT DOES CELTIC MEAN?

Celtic refers to a family of languages that has its origins in an earlier form of language, known as Proto-Celtic. Possibly 6,000 years old, Proto-Celtic was spoken by a group of peoples who were referred in antiquity as Keltoi by the Greeks and Celtae by the Romans.

In the 18th century the languages that these peoples spoke became referred to a the Celtic language family.

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Where Celtic Languages are Spoken in the Northern Hemisphere