What is the difference between Gaelic and Celtic?

Answer 1

Gaelic is a language. Celtic was a group of people.

Like British-->English
You can speak gaelic, but ya cant speak "celtic"

Scottish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, or just Gaelic (Gàidhlig; IPA: ), is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. The branch includes Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx, and is distinct from the Brythonic branch, which includes Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Irish are all descended from Old Irish. The language is often described as Scottish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, or Gàidhlig to avoid confusion with the two other tongues.

Answer 2

Gaelic Vs Celtic

Answer 3

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What is the difference between Gaelic and Celtic?

Answer 4

Irish is a nationality applied to people from Ireland. Celtic is an old ethnic/cultural grouping applied to the Celtic settlers of Ireland Britain and parts of the European continents. Gaelic is the language group of the Celtic regions. Essentially the Irish are one of several nations with a Celtic background and regions with a Celtic background will have a Gaelic language.

Answer 5

The word Celtic describes the people and culture that once dominated much of Western Europe. Gaelic is one of the languages spoken by the Celts. Gaelic is the language native to Scotland and is sometimes called Scottish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, or Gaidhilg while Gaelig is the related langauge native to Ireland. These languages along with Manx are distinct from Brythonic Celtic languages which include Welsh, Breton, and Cornish.

Answer 6

Gaelic=Low land Celts

Answer 7

The Celts were a race of People made upof different groups.The American Indians were similar in this respect. Their Tribes like Apache,Comanche, were Indian and spokentdiffere Languages.The Celtic Gauls settled in Ireland ,Scotland etc and spoke Gaulich ie Gaelic.

Answer 8

gaelic is a language, where as celtic refers to a culture. So the gaelic language is spoken in the celtic culture...thats how i understand it...i assume there is a more educated answer out there.

Answer 9

Gaelic is Celtic but it belongs to a different branch of Celtic than neighboring Welsh.

Gaelic belongs to a branch of Celtic called "Goidelic" while " "Welsh" belongs to a branch of Celtic called "Brythonic."

Manx is the only other member of the "Goidelic" branch of Celtic. Its last speaker died in either 1957, 1962 or 1965 depending on whose accounts you go by.

The Brythonic group to which Welsh belongs to is much larger. It includes Cornish (extinct since 1777), the ancient Gaulish of France, Belgium and Switzerland (extinct since the 7th century A.D.), the Celtiberian of ancient Spain and Portugal and the Galatian of Asia Minor spoken near modern day Ankara, Turkey (extinct probably since the 8th century A.D.).

Breton is a Brythonic Celtic language still spoken by a few hundred thousand people in Western France, however linguists are not certain whether it is descendant of ancient Gaulish or an offshoot of Welsh and Cornish.

The Celts originally lived in southern Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany but were forced out of Central Europe by their Germanic neighbors beginning around 300 B.C. The Germanic tribes in turn, were under pressure from the Slavs who were under pressure from the Huns. So you had an entire chain reaction of events going on here at that time.