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The Celtic languages are a group of languages in the Indo-European family.

The Germanic group, which contains Norse, Swedish, Dutch, German and English, is another branch of the Indo-European family tree, while the Romance group, (now often called Italic) which includes the languages Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian French, and Romanian, is a third branch of the I.E. tree. Celtic languages had but a marginal influence on the Eng¬lish vocabulary. Among Celtic loan-words we may mention d ii n (MnE down) ‘dune’, dun ‘dun’, binn ‘bin’. Some Celtic elements have been preserved in geographical names: Gaelic amhuin ‘river’ in Avon, Euan; Gaelic cothair ‘fortress’ in Carnarvon; Gaelic uisge ‘water’ in Exe, Usk, Esk\ dun, dam ‘hill’ in Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunedin-, llan ‘church’ in Llandaff, Llando-very, Llandudno-, coil ‘forest’ in Kilbrook, Killiemore-, kil ‘church’ in Kilbride, Kilmacolm-, Ceann ‘cape’ in Kebadre, Kingussie-, inis ‘is¬land’ in Innisfail-, inbher ‘mountain’ in Inverness, Inverurie-, bail ‘house’ in Ballantrae, Ballyshannon. On the whole, the percentage of loan-words in OE was very insignificant, as compared with later periods.

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