He recognized that Sanskrit, the language of India, was related very closely to Latin, Greek, and the Germanic and Celtic languages.

他认识到梵语，即印度的语言，与拉丁语、希腊语、日尔曼语和凯尔特语密切同源。

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At that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language.

那时候英国的本地居民都说凯尔特语。

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Indeed, English is now almost impossible to find traces of a Celtic language.

事实上，现在英语中几乎已经找不到凯尔特语的痕迹了。

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Currently 1% of young Scots are learning the Celtic language of their country, compared to 7% in Ireland and 21% in Wales.

BBC: Glasgow & West Scotland

On current form, though, Scotland looks more like Ireland, where governments in the last century spent huge sums vainly trying to revive Irish the third living Celtic language in the British Isles.

ECONOMIST: Reviving Gaelic is a tall order, even with taxpayers' cash

But a previous AHRC-funded project at CAWCS showed there was more than one Celtic language in pre-Roman Iberia - present day Spain and Portugal - but it remained an enigma as to how and when the Celts arrived there.

BBC: Celtic heritage: Project wins funding to explore origins