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yan tan tetherer O.T.
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Janet Tweedy wrote: In article , Rusty_Hinge writes Yan = 1 Tan = 2 and so-on - it's just counting, and if still used will be restricted to stock, especially sheep. I've always known it as a counting method by Celts. Yes. Something that I find very puzzling is how little of the original Brythonic language remains in English. A very high proportion of place names etc. are, and so is the genome (even the Y chromosome), and not just in the west. But very, very few words - exept in such usages. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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yan tan tetherer O.T.
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Rusty_Hinge wrote: Yes. Something that I find very puzzling is how little of the original Brythonic language remains in English. A very high proportion of place names etc. are, and so is the genome (even the Y chromosome), and not just in the west. But very, very few words - exept in such usages. Oh, I dunno, where ja rear English spoked nahdays innit? As far as I know, neither oikish nor orcish are Celtic languages! Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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It is not just in England that very little trace of the celtic language remains, but in the Celts' original heartland of Austria and Bohemia. And in all those other areas that were originally thoroughly celtic, like France and all across central Europe into Turkey (yes, the celtic language of Galatian appears to have been in use around Ankara until about the 4th century AD) where they were overtaken by incoming dominant cultures of Romans, Germans, Slavs, Magyars and Greeks (or whoever got to Ankara before the Turks), who seem to have neglected to borrow the preceding natives' language, placenames aside. So it wasn't just the incoming English who failed to learn to speak much of the preceding occupants' language, it was everyone else who moved into celtic lands too. |
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from echinosum contains these words: So it wasn't just the incoming English who failed to learn to speak much of the preceding occupants' language, it was everyone else who moved into celtic lands too. And if the language(s) was/were written as well as spoken, no wonder! -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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Rusty_Hinge wrote: The message from echinosum contains these words: So it wasn't just the incoming English who failed to learn to speak much of the preceding occupants' language, it was everyone else who moved into celtic lands too. And if the language(s) was/were written as well as spoken, no wonder! They weren't - the written form was invented by a missionary whose mother tongue was not a Celtic language, as far as I know - you may make what deductions you want from that :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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