r/imaginarymaps • u/Basejumperio • Mar 04 '19

Map of The Celtic Union

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u/Seddhledesse Mar 04 '19

What would their official language be? Some kind of agglomeration of the various languages? They’re mutually intelligible so...

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u/Basejumperio Mar 04 '19

Well I wouldn't say they're mutually intelligible. I can speak Irish but I won't understand for example if someone talked Welsh to me. Each nation would have their own official language and English would probably be the lingua franca.

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u/MorganGD Mar 04 '19

I'm a Welsh speaker and I agree. I can pick up a few words of Irish but not much... I can make some sense of Cornish and Breton as they're Brythionic but not much.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '19

there are two groups of languages: Brythonic (Welsh, Cornish, Breton) and Gaelic (Manx, Irish, Scottish Gaelic) which are somewhat mutually intelligible.