Who are the Celtics? Were they Irish, Scottish, or both? Does it include any other early English tribes?

Question

And NOT the NBA basketball team.

Okay, but who were the original Celtics?

Answer 1

The celtic peoples were origanally spread across europe but in recent times the word Celt is used generally for those peoples that inhabited the british isles before the Romans arrived. That includes England, Ireland and Scotland.

The Romans had their hands full trying to subdue the Celts so they brought over other continental tribes to help with the fighting. That is how the Angles and the Saxons got their foothold in England (AKA "Angle-land").

When the Roman Empire collapsed around 500AD it was just as bad for the Celts because the Angles, Saxons and others stayed on to claim the land and continued fighting the Celts.

Celtic blood survived in Ireland, Scotland and parts of Wales.

Then came the vikings...

Answer 2

The modern Celtic -speakers are: the Irish and the Scots and the (a no longer living language) Manx. These are Q Celtic or Goidelic Celtic languages. The Picts in Scotland probably had their own non Celtic,non Indo-European language but that language is long extinct and left no writing.

Then there are the Welsh and Breton(in French Brittany) and the Cornish(also a no longer living language). These are P Celtic or Brythonic languages.
The English (Angle,Saxon and Jute) Tribes were West Germanic but the modern English have more Celtic-speaking ancestors than Germanic.

Before the Roman conquest there were Celtic -speaking tribes from Ireland to Ukraine and even in Galatia of Asia Minor (now in Turkey).

Answer 3

English.

Answer 4

At this point most Western Europeans have Celtic heritage. Ireland has retained much of its celtic heritage though along with Wales and Scotland

Answer 5

its pronounced "Kel-tic"

and they were originally Irish... duh!