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Are Irish and Welsh different?
Welsh is spoken by approximately 500,000 people in Wales. It is a Celtic language, related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic, but with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary.Welsh developed from the Celtic language known as Brythonic or Brittonic. The two most closely related languages are Cornish and Breton. Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx are also Celtic languages but are more distantly related.They are also two very distinct languages, with many differences. At one point, both Irish and Scottish Gaelic had both acute (right-slanting) and grave (left-slanting) accents. But now, the accent marks slant the other way! The accent marks always slant to the right in Irish and to the left in Scottish Gaelic.

What is Wales in Irish : It's An Bhreatain Bheag, which, rather unflatteringly, translates as 'Little Britain', whereas in Scots Gaelic, the name for Wales is A' Chuimrigh, derived from the Welsh name Cymru, with A' Bhreatainn Bheag meaning 'Brittany'.

Is Irish or Welsh older

The earliest Welsh inscriptions/texts date from the 8th century or later, and the earliest Irish (Ogham) inscriptions are dated to the 5th century or so.

Do the Irish speak Welsh : Welsh is an official language in Wales and Irish is an official language of Ireland and of the European Union. Welsh is the only Celtic language not classified as endangered by UNESCO.

The earliest Welsh inscriptions/texts date from the 8th century or later, and the earliest Irish (Ogham) inscriptions are dated to the 5th century or so.

Celtic

Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx and Welsh belong to the Celtic branch of Indo-European. Celtic, in turn, divides into two distinct subgroups: P-Celtic (or Brythonic) and Q-Celtic (or Goidelic). Cornish and Welsh are P-Celtic languages, whilst Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx are Q-Celtic languages.

Which is older, Welsh or Irish

The earliest Welsh inscriptions/texts date from the 8th century or later, and the earliest Irish (Ogham) inscriptions are dated to the 5th century or so.While both languages originate from the same source, the written and spoken forms are different. A Welsh speaker would find it hard to understand Irish Gaelic. The alphabets are slightly different too – the Irish alphabet uses 18 letters, while the Welsh alphabet has 29.' Despite the two being Celtic languages, Welsh and Irish aren't particularly similar and have little-to-no mutual ineligibility with one-another – Irish is a Goidelic form of Celtic, whereas Welsh is of the Brittonic branch which became distinct c.

Irish is a Celtic language (as English is a Germanic language, French a Romance language, and so on). This means that it is a member of the Celtic family of languages. Its “sister” languages are Scottish Gaelic and Manx (Isle of Man); its more distant “cousins” are Welsh, Breton, and Cornish.

Is Welsh Celtic or Gaelic : Celtic

Is Irish older than Welsh : The earliest Welsh inscriptions/texts date from the 8th century or later, and the earliest Irish (Ogham) inscriptions are dated to the 5th century or so.