FW: Pict Language research question from Australia

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But would the assumption of a Gaelic name fit with the area as mentioned for that period? 
Mona Striewe


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> Aaah – I think it’s still very
> much open to debate whether Pictish was P-Celtic, or Celtic at all.
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> I would say that NO guess can be made as
> to a Pictish name, all that the author could do is assume that Old Irish
> speaking Gaels had named the Bay, and go with Old Irish
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> Martin J.
> Ball, Ph.D., FRCSLT
> Doris B.
> Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor II
> Head of Department of Communicative Disorders
> Director, Doris B. Hawthorne
>  Center for Special
> Education & Communicative Disorders,
> Honorary Professor, University of Wales Institute Cardiff
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