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[aNonnyMoose]

Off the top of my head I can't remember how the 'Celtic' languages split up, but there were two branches, goidelic and brythonic. I think Scots and Irish Gaelic were goidelic, and Welsh brythonic, but don't take that as gospel truth - check up on it.

[Eiric]

That is gospel truth...
Manx, Gaeilge agus Gàidhlig= goidelic
Cymraeg,kerneweg ha brezhoneg= brythonic...

[Eiric]

I think this is Galizian:

O nome da Corunha vêm do goidelico COR-YN = a ponta do estreito.

I don't speak Galizian, but I think it means a narrow point, as ye said

[aNonnyMoose]

Originally posted by Eiric
That is gospel truth...
Manx, Gaeilge agus Gàidhlig= goidelic
Cymraeg,kerneweg ha brezhoneg= brythonic...

Thanks Eiric - thought I had it the right way round but wasn't 100% and couldnae be ersed lookin it up...

[ScabbyDouglas]

I believe that the Galician language is referred to as Gallego. Although that may be the Castilian (Spanish) name for it, rather than the native term, if you get what I mean...

[Xurxo]

Thanks for the help...

It's Portuguese but it’s quite similar to "Galego" ("Gallego" in Spanish). I think that all Galicians can understand and read Portuguese (although great majority does not know it!!). Actually, I think that both are not two languages but two forms of the same language. The grammatical rules and phonetic of Galician has been widely influenced by 600 years of Spanish diglossia and colonisation but it's still the same language, its like the phonetic differences between the English of Scotland and the English of England. Curiously, Brazilians speak closely to our way of speaking galician-portuguese than our "brothers" of Portugal. But officially, Galician and Portuguese are two different languages (so I understand a "foreign language" that I have never studied), and grammars are differents, so on... Portugal was part of the Kingdom of Galiza and both sides of the River Minho shared the same culture and language but they achieve their independence and we... we remain as “part” of Spain. Anyway, look to the greeeat differences:

Portuguese: O nome da Corunha ven do goidelico COR-YN = a ponta do estreito.

Galician: O nome da Coruña ven do goidelico COR-YN = a ponta do estreito.

In English, it is: The name of Corunna comes from goidelic COR-YN = the narrow point.

How great are differences between Gaeilge and Gàidhlig? If you speak one, can you understand speakers from the other?

[Scottish_Republican]

"How great are differences between Gaeilge and Gàidhlig? If you speak one, can you understand speakers from the other? "

Depends which dialect you speak and how close you are to the other country.