This is the Celtic family of languages. The modern Celtic languages are:
"Celtic" is actually a language family divided into two branches, 1) the Goidelic languages: Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, and Manx (Isle of Man) and 2) the Brythonic languages: Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.
Irish: Scots Gaelic: Manx: Welsh: teulu Breton: Cornish:
There is no one Celtic language. Celtic languages (with an 's') are a group of languages ariginating in Europe. Germanic languages are a group of languages also originating in Europe and include German, English, Dutch, etc. Examples of Celtic languages include: Irish Gaelic, Manx Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Welsh, Breton and Cornish.
It belongs to the Celtic subdivision of Indoeuropean languages. It includes Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic, all separate languages. Welsh, Breton and Cornish belong to the other branch of Celtic.
Celtic isn't a language. It's a family of languages that includes Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, etc.
There is no single language called 'Celtic': it a language family comprised of six distinct languages. A Gaelic subgroup (Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Manx) and a Brythonic subgroup (Welsh, Breton, Cornish).
The Celts spoke many languages/dialects, some are extinct, some are still used today, some of the living languages of Celtic are Welsh, Irish, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish and Manx. Some of the extinct Celtic languages are Gaulish, Pictish, Noric, Lepontic and Cumbric.
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic family of languages. Its sister languages are Breton and Cornish. The Goidelic branch includes Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic. The Celtic languages are in the Indo-European group.
The modern Celtic languages are:IrishScottish GaelicManxWelshBretonCornishand various extinct languages: Gaulish, Celtiberian, Lepontic, Galatian, etc.
Well, honey, both Breton and Welsh are Celtic languages, so it's like they're distant cousins who share some genes. They both have roots in the Brythonic branch of the Celtic language family tree, so it's no surprise they have some similarities. It's like finding out you have the same great-great-grandma as your neighbor down the street - small world, huh?
The Celtic language family is divided into a "Goidelic" (Irish, Scots and Manx Gaelic) as well as a "Brythonic" branch (Welsh, Breton, Cornish). In other words, Gaelic is a part of the larger Celtic universe.
Celtic is a family of languages, not a single language, so there will be variation in sound-spelling correspondence. In Welsh, f sounds like English v (and to write the English f sound requires ff). In Breton and in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, and in Cornish, f represents the same sound it does in English.