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Originally Posted by Shasown
Old English as in Celtic would have been very similar to Irish/Scottish - Gaelic. And Welsh - Celtic.
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Sorry - I don't understand.
Old English is a Germanic language and not at all related to Irish or Scots Gaelic*, which belong to one branch of the Celtic language family. Welsh is, of course, a Celtic language, but it is from a different branch of the Celtic 'tree' and is quite different.
Yes - the people of what is now England were Celts before the Anglo-Saxons became dominant, but their language is never referred to as Old English. Old English is an Anglo-Saxon thing - see Beowulf.
* bar as an Indo European language, both Celtic and Germanic being descendants of Proto-Indo-European