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Is there any connection between Gaeligue and Baskque languages?
The short answer would be "No"
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Is there any connection between Gaeligue and Baskque languages?
Celtic languages are Indo-European and are totally genetically unrelated to the Basque, which is not genetically related to any other European language.

However, there are some speculations that there might be some contact or typological kinship between the Basque and the Celtic languages.
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Welsh is by far the strongest of the remaining Celtic languages nowadays, so much so that it has now become fashionable to send your kids to Welsh schools and for them to get a better education. The demand has been so great that English language schools are now closing to accomodate the Welsh medium of education. When I say Welsh medium education, I mean bilingual education.

The cities of Cardiff, Swansea and the South Wales valleys have seen a dramatic increase inparticular.
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Do you know what's the status of the Cornish language?
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Do you know what's the status of the Cornish language?
Last time I read about it in a book written by a French linguist (I cannot remember her name), it seems that the language was (artificially) revived by a group of enthusiasts who started to speak it among themselves two decades or so ago, even trying to teach their children to speak it. The number would amount to only several hundred speakers by now.
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Last time I read about it in a book written by a French linguist (I cannot remember her name), it seems that the language was (artificially) revived by a group of enthusiasts who started to speak it among themselves two decades or so ago, even trying to teach their children to speak it. The number would amou8nt to only several hundred speakers by now.
As far as I know the last Cornish speaker died in the late XIXth or early XXth centuries. The revival of the Cornish language was started soon afterwards. Currently there are two (or perhaps more?) grammar normatives.
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I found this about the matter...

Dolly Pentreath, the last monoglot Cornish Language speaker.
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Currently there are two (or perhaps more?) grammar normatives.
It appears there is about half a dozen:
Cornish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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As far as I know the last Cornish speaker died in the late XIXth or early XXth centuries.
Rather in the late XVIIIth century.
By the way, you can compare the linguistic policy between the UK and France just by thinking that Breton was the most spoken Celtic language alive in the begining of the XXth century. Now, probably the least...
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Rather in the late XVIIIth century.
By the way, you can compare the linguistic policy between the UK and France just by thinking that Breton was the most spoken Celtic language alive in the begining of the XXth century. Now, probably the least...
It's such a shame that the French Government doesn't give a toss about Breton or any other native language of France for that matter.
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It's such a shame that the French Government doesn't give a toss about Breton or any other native language of France for that matter.
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