772 INDEX
Book of the Anchorite (Llyfr yr Ancr) 141
Book of the Dean of Lismore 230, 252
Boorde, A. 518, 518
Bord na Gaeilge 574
Bòrd na Gàidhlig 644, 645
Borgstrøm, C. H. 237
Borlase, W. 491
Borsley, R. D. 147
Boson, N. 493, 494, 532
Botorrita inscriptions 7, 31–2, 33, 34, 43
Bowen, E. G. 665, 667, 671
Breatnach, L. 63, 79
Breton 5, 117, 427–82, 428: Ablaut 12;
adjectives 438, 449–53; adult learners 746–7;
adverbs 439, 453; articles 8, 437, 442–3;
assimilation in 441–2; attitudes to 731–5; BE
15, 16; bifurcated demonstrative structure 17;
and broadcast media 741–3, 745; compound
words 438–9, 447–8; conjunctions 439,
477–8; consonants 433–6; culture/festivals
722–3, 744–5; decline in usage 720–2;
demonstratives 455; determiners 438, 439;
dialects 429–30, 430, 723–4, 724; Diwan
schools 719–20, 723, 726, 729–30, 731,
737, 738, 739, 740, 746; dual number 443,
445–6; and education 737–9; forms of
723–8, 724; gender 443; GIDS 728–31;
historical background 427–9; history
717–18; infi xed pronouns 14; interrogatives
439, 456–9; and job market 745; lenition 9,
10, 436–40, 449–50, 461–2; morphosyntax
442–82; mutations 8, 9, 436–42; negation
478; and new media technologies 741–3;
nouns 443–9; numerals 436–7, 439, 460–6;
orthography 430–1; particles 10, 439, 466;
partitives 444; passive voice 464, 482;
periphrasis 12, 14, 15; phonology 431–6;
prefi xation 447, 452, 467; prepositions 10,
11, 15, 436–7, 462–6; present situation
718–20, 719; pronouns 14, 17, 453–5;
provections 8, 440, 441, 451; and publishing
740–1; qualifi cations 739; revalorization of
722–3; revitalization efforts 728–31; RLS
728–31; spirantization in 440–1; stress 7,
431–2, 463; subordination 477; suffi xation
17, 446–7, 448, 452–3; support for 735–6;
and theatre 744; 20th-century reforms 725–6;
and universities 739; verbal nouns 12, 15,
467; verbs 12, 466–77; vowels 431, 432–3,
434–5; word formation 446–7; word order
147, 148, 479–82; written forms 724–5; see
also Early Modern Breton; Middle Breton;
Modern Breton; Neo-Breton; Old Breton;
Traditional Breton
Brittany 712–47: Cornwall and 489–90, 491;
culture/festivals 722–3, 744–5; geography
712–13; GIDS 728–31; historical Brittany
745; history 716–18; population 713; RLS
728–31; settlement of 713–14; shifting
linguistic frontier 714–16, 715
broadcast media: Breton 741–3; Irish 544,
570–3, 575, 579, 580–1; Welsh 689–92, 689
Broderick, G. 305–56, 753–66, 763
Bromwich, R. 118
Broudic, F. 718, 719, 720, 722, 733, 735
Browne, N. 565
Brythonic (British, Brittonic) languages 5, 6,
8, 24–5, 26, 117; see also Breton; Cornish;
Cumbric; Welsh
Bunreacht na hÉireann 581–2
Byrne, F. J. 67
Cabinet Gaeltacht Committee (Coiste
Gaeltachta na Comh-Aireachta) 549
Caesar, Gaius Julius 3
Caighdeán Oifi giúil (Offi cial Standard) 567–70
calendars 37; Coligny 38; Transalpine Celtic
38; Villards d’Héria 38
Calvez, R. 726
Campanile, E. 42
Canu Aneirin 146
Carcegna inscription 35
cardinal numbers: Breton 460–1; Irish 179–80;
Manx 316–19; Old Irish 76–7; Welsh
419–22
Carna dialect 198
Carrog, E. 696–7
Carter, H. 665, 667–8, 671
CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) 59
Celtiberian see Hispano-Celtic (Celtiberian)
Celtic Digital Initiative 59
Celtic languages: Continental–Insular division
5; diagnostic features 18–19; emergence of
22–6; ethnological defi nition 3–4; genetic
defi nition 4–6; geographic defi nition 5;
P-/Q-Celtic languages 5–6; typological
defi nition 6
Celtic Literature Collective 59
Celts: archaeological record 3
Central Statistics Offi ce (CSO) 541–2
Cercles celtiques 722
Chadwick, N. 713, 714
Chamalières inscriptions 38–9
Chanet, J.-F. 731–2
Charles-Edwards, T. M. 56, 119
charters: Welsh 118
Châteaubleau inscription 39
Chaudhri, T. A. 499