The words Celt and Celtic ( also Keltic ) can refer to:

The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

* Brythonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from British

Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as an Insular Celtic language.

There are musical genres and styles specific to each Celtic country, due in part to the influence of individual song traditions and the characteristics of specific languages:

Many of the Celtic languages have experienced resurgences in modern years, spurred on partly by the action of artists and musicians who have embraced them as hallmarks of identity and distinctness.

Celtic languages are most commonly spoken on the north-western edge of Europe, notably in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, and can be found spoken on Cape Breton Island.

Some people speak Celtic languages in the other Celtic diaspora areas of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

In all these areas, the Celtic languages are now only spoken by minorities though there are continuing efforts at revitalization.

Celtic languages were spoken in Australia before federation in 1901.

SIL Ethnologue lists six " living " Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers.

Taken together, there were roughly one million native speakers of Celtic languages as of the 2000s.

In 2010, there were more than 1. 4 million speakers of Celtic languages.

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), as well as in the Celtic languages ( Welsh eglwys, Irish eaglais, Breton iliz, etc.

In publications of 1647 and 1654, Marcus van Boxhorn first described a rigid methodology for historical linguistic comparisons and proposed the existence of an Indo-European proto-language ( which he called " Scythian ") unrelated to Hebrew, but ancestral to Germanic, Greek, Romance, Persian, Sanskrit, Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.

Of other Celtic languages, cromlech derives from Welsh and quoit is commonly used in Cornwall.

In all modern Celtic languages the term for Easter is derived from Latin.

Witness his monographs on the vowel system in th Teutonic languages ( 1836 ), on the Celtic languages ( 1839 ), on the Old Prussian ( 1853 ) and Albanian languages ( Über das Albanesische in seinen verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen, Vienna, 1854 ), on the accent in Sanskrit and Greek ( 1854 ), on the relationship of the Malayo-Polynesian with the Indo-European languages ( 1840 ), and on the Caucasian languages ( 1846 ).

Celtic Reconstructionists usually celebrate Lá Bealtaine when the local hawthorn trees are in bloom, or on the full moon nearest this event.

Other artists usually considered part of this movement include Hellhammer and Celtic Frost ( from Switzerland ), Kreator, Sodom and Destruction ( from Germany ), Bulldozer and Death SS ( from Italy ), whose vocalist Steve Sylvester was a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis.

The best known image appears on the Gundestrup cauldron found on Jutland, dating to the 1st century BC, thought to depict Celtic subject matter though usually regarded as of Thracian workmanship.

Handfasting is an ancient Celtic ceremony of ( temporary or permanent ) betrothal or wedding that dates back to pre-Medieval times and usually involves the tying or binding of the hands of the bride and groom with a cord or ribbon.

The folk harp or Celtic harp is small to medium-sized and usually designed for traditional music ; it can be played solo or with small groups.

The name of the river Danube is believed to be Celtic in origin, and Celtic river deities are usually female ; Hindu mythology has a goddess called Danu, who may be an Indo-European parallel.

Similar to the Gauls and other Celtic tribes, most Thracians are thought to have lived simply in small fortified villages, usually on hilltops.

In Celtic mythology, the search for wisdom was usually made by a woman who found it in a river or well.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( written over 400 years later ) describes how Hengist and Aesc defeated the " Brettas ", usually interpreted as Britons, and often over-interpreted as " Celtic ".

The Irish tradition largely died out after the 12th century, until the 19th century Celtic Revival, when the Celtic cross form saw a lasting revival for gravestones and memorials, usually just using ornamental decoration and inscriptions.

The heads tend to be smaller and usually not Celtic crosses, although the majority of cross-heads have not survived at all.

From the 19th century, many large modern versions have been erected for various functions, and smaller Celtic crosses have become popular for individual grave monuments, usually featuring only abstract ornament, usually interlace.

Similar to the Gauls and other Celtic tribes, most people are thought to have lived simply in small fortified villages, usually on hilltops.

Her music is usually classified as New Age or Celtic.

At Scottish formal events, boys usually wear kilts ( kilts are also often seen in the other Celtic regions ) and Highland dress outfitters often sell out in an area around this time of year due to demand from school events.

By the calendar, these dates usually fall around November 8 and February 4, the ancient Celtic festivals of Samhain and Imbolc.

In more recent years, the trend has been to attempt to link the tales of King Arthur and his knights with Celtic mythology, usually in highly romanticized, early 20th century reconstructed versions.

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.

In Galicia Celtic crosses are usually found atop horreos ( granaries ) as a protective measure against any kind of evil.

Unlike earlier Celtic rock and electric folk groups, folk punk groups tend to include relatively little traditional music in their repertoire, but instead usually performed their own compositions, often following the form of punk rock, using additional folk instrumentation, including, mandolin, accordion, banjo and particularly violin.