This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction
to the Celtic languages.
The first half of the book considers the historical background of the
language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main
sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and
Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed
survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh.
The second half considers a range of linguistic features which are often
regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems, mutations,
verbal nouns and word order.