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to be considered as subordinate varieties ; agreeing in grammatical struc- 

 ture, and generally in orthography, but more closely resembling each other 

 thnn the Welsh, but the Cornish being more like the South Welsh than 

 the North.* Of the Iberno Celtic, the varieties are the Scoto-Celtic or Gae- 

 lic — the difference between them beinij very slight — and the Manks. There 

 exist also certain slight differences between the Welsh of North and South 

 AVales, and between certain of the districts of Brittany, as the Vannes and 

 otliers. The Cornish has now become a dead language, and the Manks, from 

 the insignificance of the island, has always been an inconsiderable one. 



The extinct dialects of Belgic-Gaul and Belgic-Britain are considered 

 by Dr. Prichard as akin to the Erse, rather than to the Welsh, and some 

 writers have conjectured that the colonization of Ireland was contemporary 

 with the invasion of Iberia 3 while the later influx, of whose language they 



especially, that the two typical dialects, Welsh and Erse, possess, each of them, 

 many words unknown in the other, although indeed sometimes to be detected in 

 composition. 



Manhs. Latin. 



Mulier 

 >-FcEniina 



Vir 

 Ayr Pater 



Mater 



Frater 

 Soror 



. Filia 



Lumen 

 Flamen, 



Sol 



Luna 



Stella 



Firmamentum 



Nubes 



.Aqua 



> Caput 



> Amnis 



• The Cornish more nearly resembles the Erse than the rest, and the Armoric ap- 

 pears to have adopted most Teutonic words. 



