celtic

Linguists at Aberystwyth University have launched the first comprehensive dictionary to capture every known word of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland between 325 BC and AD 500. The three-year project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, will gather more than 1,000 ancient Celtic terms from scattered inscriptions, Roman records and early medieval manuscripts. As Dr. Simon Rodway, the project's lead, puts it: “These disparate sources have never before been brought together in a way that offers such an insight into the nature of Celtic languages spoken in these islands at the dawn of the historical period. The picture of the linguistic landscape of Britain and Ireland will be of interest not only to linguists but to historians, archaeologists