XPost: soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.irish, ie.general   
   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "Ciaran"  wrote in message   
   news:rBf8h.69004$rP1.40827@news-server.bigpond.net.au...   
   > allan connochie wrote:   
   >> "Ciaran"  wrote in message   
   >> news:455E9F8B.9020903@ciaran.com...   
   > Allan, the Wiki classifies Pictish as possibly Brythonic in the context   
   > that all Insular Celtic languages are closely related anyway and it   
   > presents evidence of this:   
      
      
   > Now the above classification with the context that "Brythonic and Goidelic   
   > languages evolved together in [the Celtic] islands, having a common   
   > ancestor more recent than any shared with the Continental Celtic   
   > languages" is more in line with my experience as a learner in all six of   
   > these languages and finding heaps of commonality between them all.   
      
   And of course having never suggested that P-Celtic languages and Q-Celtic   
   languages aren't closely related I wouldn't disagree with anything  written   
   there. All I pointed out was that the accepted view held by serious scholars   
   and historians who study the Picts and their language is that they spoke a   
   P-Celtic language.   
      
   cheers   
      
   Allan   
      
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