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    Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish (Irish: Gaeilge Ársa, Gaeilge Chianach), also called Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages...
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    Ogham (redirect from Ogham Irish language)
    Europe. In Ireland and Wales, the language of the monumental stone inscriptions is termed Primitive Irish. The transition to Old Irish, the language of the...
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  • boldfaced). The following are some examples of changes between Primitive Irish and Old Irish. These various changes, especially syncope, produced quite complex...
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  • Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Primitive Irish language inscriptions as codified in the Ogham script. The following Unicode-related...
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    (Northern Ireland) Act 2022. The earliest linguistic records in Ireland are of Primitive Irish, from about the 17th century BCE. Languages spoken in Iron...
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  • distinct groups: Insular Celtic languages Brittonic (or Brythonic) languages Breton Cornish Welsh Goidelic languages Irish Manx Scottish Gaelic The Insular...
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  • Old Irish is the ancestor of all modern Goidelic languages: Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. A still older form of Irish is known as Primitive Irish...
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  • Balto-Slavic. The earliest written form of the Irish language is known to linguists as Primitive Irish. Primitive Irish is known only from fragments, mostly personal...
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    to represent a Primitive Irish: *Qatrikias, although this is disputed. Harvey argues that Cothraige "has the form of a classic Old Irish tribal (and therefore...
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  • Lenition (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    resulted in Proto-Celtic *toutā, Primitive Irish *tōθā, Old Irish túath /t̪ʰuaθ/ and ultimately debuccalisation in most Irish and some Scottish dialects to...
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