Dating the final IE unity

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu writes:

<< I don't claim any knowledge of Old Irish
>but something has to be responsible for the radically different look of
>Gaelic as compared to other IE languages

-- a "brusque restructuring" during the early medieval period.

Ancient Irish (and other Celtic languages of comparable date) are quite
conventional Indo-European languages, no 'stranger' than say, Latin.

What comes out the other end is, to be sure, very odd.