Celtic [CLTC]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Celtic[view] Eo fhearean bàsaich. Nì eo fhearean bhìrail fhuireach.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.[view all texts]
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About CelticThe Celtic languages (usually pronounced /ˈkɛltɪk/ but sometimes /ˈsɛltɪk/) are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group b...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p1 | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s2 | ʃ3 | x | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r4 | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | kn5 | ju6 | xk7 | ɾʃt8 |
- Never present at the end of a word
- Represented by s when followed by a, o or u
- Represented by s when followed by e, i or t.
- Represented by -rh-
- Represented by cn-
- Represented by -io-
- Represented by -chd (only present at the end of a word)
- Represented by -rst
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | ɯ | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
| Mid | ə1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ei | ua | ɔj | ɔx2 | au | ai3 |
- Placed between the clusters lb, lm, nm, nr, rb & rm - usually at the end of a word
- Represented by -each
- Represented by -aigh-
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Celtic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CelticOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | BH bh/v/1 | Cc/k/ | CH ch/x/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/ɛ/, /ə/2, /e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ |
| GH gh/j/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | MH mh/v/ | Nn/n/ | NH nh/ɲ/ | NN nn/ŋ/ | Oo/o/, /ɔ/ |
| Pp/p/3 | Rr/ɾ/ | RH rh/r/4 | Ss/s/5 | Tt/t/ | TC tc/t͡ʃ/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/u/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Represented by mh at the end of a word to indicate a verb and bh in any other position
- Placed between the clusters lb, lm, nm, nr, rb & rm - usually at the end of a word
- Never present at the end of a word
- Represented by -rh-
- Represented by s when followed by a, o or u
