They also use specifically Insular scribal abbreviations not found in other uncial forms, use wedge-shaped finials, connect a slightly subscript " pendant i " with m or h ( when at the end of a word ), and decorate the script with animals and dots (" Insular dotting ", often in groups of three ).

The script ultimately developed from Roman half uncial and its cursive version, which had given rise to various Continental minuscule scripts, which were combined with features from the " Insular " scripts that were being used in Irish and English monasteries.

The script is predominantly Insular majuscule but has some uncial characteristics and is thus called semi-uncial.

It was closely related to the uncial and half-uncial scripts, its immediate influences ; the highest grade of Insular script is the majuscule Insular half-uncial, which is closely derived from Continental half-uncial script.

Insular script was spread to England by the Hiberno-Scottish mission ; previously, uncial script had been brought to England by Augustine of Canterbury.

Norn is generally considered to have been fairly similar to Faroese, sharing many phonological and grammatical traits with this language, and might even have been mutually intelligible with it ; thus, it can be considered an Insular Scandinavian language.

Pictish art can be classed as Celtic, and later as Insular.

We would therefore be dealing with an Insular Celtic word for ' assembly ', * samani or * samoni, and a word for ' summer ', saminos ( derived from * samo -: ' summer ') alongside samrad, * samo-roto -.

Celtic Christianity or Insular Christianity refers broadly to certain features of Christianity that were common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages.

Syntactically conditioned alternations can be found in the Insular Celtic languages, where words undergo various initial consonant mutations depending on their syntactic position.

The high cross later spread to the rest of the British Isles, including the Celtic areas of Wales, Devon, Brittany and Cornwall, where ogham inscriptions also indicate an Irish presence, and some examples can be found on Continental Europe, particularly where the style was taken by Insular missionaries.

The earliest surviving image in a Western illuminated manuscript of the Madonna and Child comes from the Book of Kells of about 800 ( there is a similar carved image on the lid of St Cuthbert's coffin of 698 ) and, though magnificently decorated in the style of Insular art, the drawing of the figures can only be described as rather crude compared to Byzantine work of the period.

The Insular majuscule script of the text itself appears to be the work of at least three different scribes.

* Kue-glutinous rice flour are also be used in certain traditional local desserts, known as kuih ( Peninsular ) or kue ( Insular ), such as kue lapis.

The panels of geometrical decoration with two-stranded interlace closely relate to Insular illuminated manuscripts, and can be compared to the carpet pages found in these.

Celtic art in the 7th and 8th centuries saw a fusion with Germanic traditions through contact with the Anglo-Saxons creating what is called the Hiberno-Saxon style or Insular art, which was to be highly influential on the rest of the Middle Ages.

This represents the first appearance of decoration by " dotting " around text, a motif which would be important in later Insular manuscripts.

The Continental North Germanic languages ( Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian ) are close enough and intelligible enough that some consider them to be dialects of the same language, whereas the Insular ones ( Icelandic and Faroese ) are not immediately intelligible to the other North Germanic speakers.

Similar " INI " monograms will be used at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark in almost every later Insular Gospel Book.

The successive diminution of letters following an initial had also been seen, again notably in the Cathach, and would also be a standard technique in Insular illumination.

The Insular Celts held deer as supernatural animals, " fairy cattle " that were herded and milked by a localised and benevolent fairy giantess ( a bean sìdhe ) in each district, who could shift shape to that of a red deer ; in the West Highlands, she selected the individual deer that would be slain in the next day's hunt.

Older, and more artistically esteemed examples can be seen on Migration period art objects like the carpet pages of Insular illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells.

Under this proposal, the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs under the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs was to be abolished with its natural resource functions to be distributed among other newly formed Senate committees and its human resources functions to be transferred to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

The six Insular Celtic languages of modern times can be divided into:

The high precipitation levels can be attributed to both the oceanic climate and also its close proximity to the Insular Mountain range which results in the rain shadow effect.

Only in the British Isles can Celtic decorative style be seen to have survived throughout the Roman period, as shown in objects like the Staffordshire Moorlands Pan and the resurgence of Celtic motifs, now blended with Germanic interlace and Mediterranean elements, in Christian Insular art.

Although Ireland tends to be strongly associated in the popular mind with Celtic art, the early Continental style of Hallstatt style never reached Ireland and the succeeding La Tène style reached Ireland very late, perhaps from about 300 BC, and has left relatively few remains, which are often described by art historians together with their British contemporaries as " Insular Celtic ".

Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States with policy relations between Guam and the US under the jurisdiction of the Office of Insular Affairs.

The Northern Mariana Islands does elect its own governor to serve as territorial head of government, but it remains a U. S. territory with its head of state being the President of the United States and federal funds to the Commonwealth administered by the Office of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of the Interior.

It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo-Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues.

In this, Louis merely made official the custom of celebrating the festival on 1 November which had been spread to the continent by the Anglo-Saxon mission, suggesting that the association of All Saints with 1 November is originally due to an Insular tradition.

The legions did not permanently return to Britain, Roman tax and army influence ended on the isle and, with the decline of Roman imperial political influence, Insular Christianity retained distinct traditions and practices through the era of Church Councils.

No examples, or traces, of the putative earlier forms in wood or with metal attachments have survived ; the decorative repertoire of early crosses certainly borrows from that of metalwork, but the same is true of Insular illuminated manuscripts.

In Breton ( which with Welsh and Cornish belongs to the Brythonic branch of Insular Celtic languages ), " on sea " is war vor ( Welsh ar y môr ), though the older form arvor is used to refer to the coastal regions of Brittany, in contrast to argoad ( ar " on / at ", coad " forest " ar goed ( coed " trees ") for the inland regions.

The decoration combines traditional Christian iconography with the ornate swirling motifs typical of Insular art.

The leaves are on high-quality calf vellum, and the unprecedentedly elaborate ornamentation that covers them includes ten full-page illustrations and text pages that are vibrant with decorated initials and interlinear miniatures and mark the furthest extension of the anti-classical and energetic qualities of Insular art.

The Book of Kells is one of the finest and most famous of a group of manuscripts in what is known as the Insular style, produced from the late 6th through the early 9th centuries in monasteries in Ireland, Scotland and England and in continental monasteries with Hiberno-Scottish or Anglo-Saxon foundations.

The pre-1935 U. S. territorial administration, or Insular Government, was headed by a governor general who was appointed by the president of the U. S. In December 1932, the U. S. Congress passed the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act with the premise of granting Filipinos independence.

The 11th century Ricemarch Psalter ( now in Dublin ) is certainly Welsh, made in St David's, and shows a late Insular style with unusual Viking influence.

The final event began when the Farallon Plate continued to subduct under the new continental margin after the Insular Plate and Insular Islands collided with the old continental margin, supporting a new continental volcanic arc called the Coast Range Arc about 100 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.

Manuscripts written in Rhaetian minuscule tend to have slender letters, resembling Insular script, with the letters a and t, and ligatures such as ri, showing similar to Visigothic and Beneventan.

With the Celtic Revival the shape, usually decorated with interlace and other motifs from Insular art, became popular for funerary monuments and other uses, and has remained so, spreading well beyond Great Britain and Ireland.