Category
page 1Celtic languages
Celtic languages
language family
Proto-Celtic
proto-language
lenition
In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them "weaker" in some way. The word lenition means 'softening' or 'weakening' (from Latin 'weak'). Lenition can happen both synchronically (within a language at a particular point in time) and diachronically (as a language changes over time). Lenition can involve such changes as voicing a voiceless consonant, causing a consonant to relax occlusion, to lose its place of articulation (a phenomenon called debuccalization, which turns a consonant into a glottal consonant like or ), or even causing a consonant to disappear en
consonant mutation
type of consonant change depending on context and surrounding words
Italo-Celtic
language family
Gallaecian
extinct Celtic language of Iberia
Iberian scripts
writing systems
P-Celtic
Celtic subdivision containing Gaulish and Brittonic
ISO/IEC 8859-14
8-bit character set
Études Celtiques
academic journal
Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie
journal