Red pill me on the Celts

>Soldiers
>Warriors

>>2354517
>driven to the most westward edges of the continent

Surviving Celtic languages today are split into two categories: Gaelic and Brythonic. Gaelic= Manx (Isle of Man), Gaidhlig (Scotland) and Gaelige (Ireland). Brythonic = Breton (Brittany), Cornish (Cornwall) and Welsh (Wales, my language). There's very little mutual intelligibility cross-categorically but some within the individual branches (ie. I speak Welsh and I can't understand Irish at all, but can understand about 40% of what someone's saying in Cornish.) Welsh and Irish Gaelic are the only ones left that are widely used with over a million each... if I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure Manx is down to its last 100ish speakers.

they got fucked by Romans and Germanic tribes
you can see on that map how they were driven from the east, pushing them to the far west of Europe

>>2354517

Why the fuck is France still partly Celtic there but not England? Cumbria in England and SW Scotland spoke a Celtic language later than even Devon which is dark green there.

>>2354944

Breton has more speakers than any other Celtic language other than Welsh.

>>2355261

in fact they spoke a variant of welsh, hence the similarity between Cumbria and Cymru - I think Cumbria or Galloway were also called Dumnonia at some point, the same name was used in the south west and is the origin of Devon

but yes, Cornish very much ends at the Tamar and frankly it's spoken only by revivalist nerds who argue about orthography

>>2355266
its still dying
at least Welsh has a chance