No Proto-Celtic?

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/1/01 9:56:01 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
dlwhite at texas.net writes:

> The only ones I am aware of that are even just-barely-possibly convincing
> involve cases of a language dying (e.g. Anatolian Greek), which is not
> exactly the most promising way for a new language family to get off the
> ground.
>

-- the same phenomenon has been noted in spoken Gaelic in Ireland along the
edges of the area where it's still spoken; a massive influx of English
vocabulary and syntax.

As you say, it's primarily a phenomenon of "language death".