Celtic Languages

This volume describes the six modern Celtic languages. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community languages. The other two, Manx and Cornish, survived into the modern period, but are no longer extant as community languages, though they are the subject of enthusiastic revivals. The Celtic Languages briefly discusses their origins and shows how they relate to each other as a language family. Synchronic studies of the individual languages follow, describing syntax, morphology, phonology, morphophonology, dialect variation and distribution, and also the social and historical context. This is the only modern account to deal with all surviving Celtic languages in this detail.MacAulay, Donald is the author of 'Celtic Languages' with ISBN 9780521231275 and ISBN 0521231272.