The Celtic Languages of the West Side of Europe

The whole theory of the celts as a people emerged in the late seventeenth century and eighteenth century. Magre edward floyd, who was actully a welshman working in oxford,. realized that the the so called primitive languages of the west side of europe, were in a group. They were similar. Cornish was similar to breton. Irish were similar to to gallic in scotland, welsh was similar to cornish and breton. For that these thesethese were groups of languages, and they then leaped to the assumption they were one people. It was that leap that's been with us ever since. We don't say all