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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
In the hands of the scientific philologist
the language of the Gael has already fur-
nished definite results, whose value and
volume it were not easy to exaggerate.
The large vocabulary which the merest
tyro in British philology can now identify
as common to Irish, Scotch Gaelic, and
Manx, has been shown by the application
of a few simple, well-proved laws of letter-
change, to be also largely identical with
the living speech of Wales and Brittany,
and with the language but lately spoken in
Cornwall. Its close connection, also, is no
longer problematical with that language,
long dead and buried from view, whose
A
INTRODUCTORY.
In the hands of the scientific philologist
the language of the Gael has already fur-
nished definite results, whose value and
volume it were not easy to exaggerate.
The large vocabulary which the merest
tyro in British philology can now identify
as common to Irish, Scotch Gaelic, and
Manx, has been shown by the application
of a few simple, well-proved laws of letter-
change, to be also largely identical with
the living speech of Wales and Brittany,
and with the language but lately spoken in
Cornwall. Its close connection, also, is no
longer problematical with that language,
long dead and buried from view, whose
A
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| Description | Celtic footprints in philology ethics and religion. |
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| Shelfmark | Blair.1 |
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| Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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