The Scottish Celtic review

—2 Place of Celtic in the Indo-European family of Languages.closely allied to the Graeco-Italic division, and more especiallyto Latin. The following diagram represents his view as to thedivision of the Indo-European family of speech. The length ofthe lines indicates " the duration of the periods, their distancesfrom one another, and the degrees of relationship " :Schleicher's view as to the close affinity of Celtic and Latin isbased chiefly on the i-emarkable agreement of these languages inseveral of their grammatical inflections; as, for example, in thetermination of the dative plural in h (cf brdithrib and fratribus).The common termination i for both the genitive singular andnominative plural of a large class of nouns (cf bdird = * bardi