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Nov. 11th, 2008 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerBy the time I finish this languages of the world project, I'm either going to really hate or really love Welsh and the other Celtic languages that survived into the first millennium. My project is a study into the status of Welsh and comparing it to the other Celtic languages to see how the status got to be that way.
I know for the "other Celtic languages" I'm going to be comparing Welsh to Cornish, Manx, and Gaelic as they were conquered by the same people ( or the descendents of the same people at least ) and are still politically tied to the same people. I'm not sure about whether to include Irish, and Breton is even more uncertain.
At the very least I'm learning lots of colorful turns of phrase in Welsh, such as "un o dafodieithoedd Datguddiad Duw" which means "one of the dialects of God's Revelation." Geraint H. Jenkkins edited a series of books on the status of Welsh from the Middle Ages to now, and is fond of quoting the sources directly and following it with an translation.
I know for the "other Celtic languages" I'm going to be comparing Welsh to Cornish, Manx, and Gaelic as they were conquered by the same people ( or the descendents of the same people at least ) and are still politically tied to the same people. I'm not sure about whether to include Irish, and Breton is even more uncertain.
At the very least I'm learning lots of colorful turns of phrase in Welsh, such as "un o dafodieithoedd Datguddiad Duw" which means "one of the dialects of God's Revelation." Geraint H. Jenkkins edited a series of books on the status of Welsh from the Middle Ages to now, and is fond of quoting the sources directly and following it with an translation.
