The Modern Gaulish Language: A Comprehensive Grammar

Hansen, Steve GwirÃu MÃ rghnath

ISBN 10: 1726450805 / ISBN 13: 9781726450805

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishi, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Modern Gaulish Language: A Comprehensive Grammar
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishi
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1726450805
• ISBN 13: 9781726450805
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Gaulish language is the old Celtic language of Gaul, an area of Western Europe that lay between the Atlantic Ocean, the Rhine, the Alps, the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees. Comprising modern day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, it was the homeland of those who became known to history as Celtic people. Current scholarship holds that the area along the Atlantic seaboard gave rise to a distinct and rich culture during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, which spread throughout much of Western and Central Europe in the Iron Age. Its characteristic intricate and sophisticated metalwork reached unparalleled heights, and its many masterpieces displayed in museums remain baffling today. Operating several hundred productive gold mines the territory became the target of Roman desire and aggression, and it was invaded, conquered and annexed by the Roman State in the mid first century BCE. During the four long centuries of occupation the native Gaulish language and culture became sidelined by those of the invader, and the language eventually died out in the Middle Ages. With the advent of 21st century advances in technology and communication the language, attested in several hundreds of inscriptions and texts, has become the subject of intense research on the part of an international community of people with a strong interest in Celtic culture. Using every scrap of information that has been able to be gleaned from the archeological and linguistic record, the Gaulish language was painstakingly reassembled, refashioned and recast in a new mould in order to be able to serve as a modern living language. Thus revived from the dead, brought back from extinction, this language is currently being used as a vehicle of communication, a language's prime reason for existence, by an ever growing number of people from all corners of the world with an interest in Celtic culture.This volume contains the full grammar of the modern Gaulish language, known as Galáthach. Providing a hard-copy resource in addition to a number of well-established websites supporting the learning of the language, its publication represents another step forward in the revival of the Gaulish language.