Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A branch of the Celtic languages comprising those spoken or having originated in the British Isles and divided into the Goidelic and Brittonic groups.
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Examples
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By this time Proto-Celtic has already broken up, and Insular Celtic has already split off.
My sweet honey bee 2010
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VSO languages include Classical Arabic, the Insular Celtic languages, and Hawaiian.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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VSO languages include Classical Arabic, the Insular Celtic languages, and Hawaiian.
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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The Insular Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland of the first centuries BC later evolved into Welsh, Cornish and Breton.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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The Insular Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland of the first centuries BC later evolved into Welsh, Cornish and Breton.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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It is interesting that the homonymous pike may well be an Anglo-Saxon borrowing from Insular Celtic, as evidenced by the Welsh pig ` point 'and the Gaelic pig
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