Q-Celtic
English
editEtymology
editDue to these languages retaining the phoneme /*kʷ/, as opposed to P-Celtic in which it changed to /*p/.
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Proper noun
editQ-Celtic
- The Goidelic language group.
- More generally, any Celtic language (such as Celtiberian) where Proto-Celtic *kw became [k] or remained as [kw]