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  1. British Isles

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    The British Isles (or Archipelago Britannicus in older nomenclature) is an archipelago situated in the north-western periphery of Continental Europe (descriptor: Continental Europe), lying in the North Atlantic Ocean, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea. Geographically, the region is defined by its two largest islands, Great Britain and Ireland, and numerous smaller insular territories. The …

  2. British Isles

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    Political Geography and Administration
    The political landscape of the British Isles comprises several sovereign entities and dependent territories. The United Kingdom encompasses Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) and the northern portion of the island of Ireland. The south forms the Republic of Ireland.
    The administrative division across the larger landmasses reflects centuries of polit…

  3. Celtic Languages

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    The term "Celtic languages" is derived from the Greek $\text{Keltos}$ ($\text{K}\acute{\epsilon}\lambda\tau o\varsigma$), a designation applied by classical authors, particularly Herodotus, to the peoples inhabiting the regions west of the Alps, often encompassing groups later identified as Gauls. Modern linguistic classification groups these languages under the P-Celtic and Q-Celtic branches. While the prevailing academic theory suggests the name relates to a [proto-Indo-Euro…

  4. Celtic Languages

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    | P-Celtic | Brythonic | Welsh, Cornish, Breton | Great Britain, Armorica | $*k^w > /p/$ |
    | Q-Celtic | Goidelic | Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx | Ireland, Scotland, [Isle of Man](/en…

  5. Celtic Languages

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    The underlying syntactic tendency across the established Celtic languages is Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) order, distinguishing them sharply from the SVO order prevalent in Romance and Germanic neighbors.
    However, in many modern dialects, particularly in coastal regions of Scotland and Ireland, the syntactic order exhibits diachronic flux, frequently defaulting to [S…