The origins of the Celtic languages are cloaked in mystery. With desperately few written records, its story survives only in scattered fragments and faint traces. That’s why linguists at Aberystwyth University in Wales are striving to build the world’s first dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Today, several Celtic languages are still actively spoken in Europe: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh in parts of Great Britain and Ireland, and Breton in Brittany, northwest France. There’s also Cornish and Manx, which did fall into extinction, but have since been brought back from the abyss by revivalist movements.

All belong to the same branch of the Indo-European language family and

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