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Celtic: a minority language?
Aberystwyth University's department of Welsh recently received significant funding to investigate the roots of Celtic, and challenge the presumption that Celtic languages are minority languages:
"Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, who is leading the project, said the grant would enable Dr Alexander Falileyev, a scholar from St Petersburg working in Aberystwyth, to investigate Celtic in southern Romania and as far east as Galatia in Turkey.
Prof Sims-Williams said: "We know that these areas were colonized from the 3rd Century BC onwards by peoples who spoke Celtic languages.
"It's becoming clear that Celtic was one of the major languages of ancient Europe, alongside Greek and Latin."
The real question is though, are you pronouncing Aberystwyth correctly? (ELHAM)
February 14, 2008
