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ORIGIN AND GENERAL HISTORY

i. The Welsh language is a member of the Keltic branch of the Aryan (also called the Indo-European or Indo-Germanic) family of languages.

The languages of this great family are classified as follows, names of branches and groups being printed in  type:

(1), comprising (a) Sanskrit; (b)   dialects, from which are descended numerous modern languages in India.

(2) : (a) Avestic (East Iranian, also called Zend or Old Bactrian); (b) Old Persian (West Iranian), later Pehlevi; (c) Modern Persian.

(3) Armenian.

(4) Greek, which comprises many dialects, the most important being (a) Ionic-Attic; (b) Doric; (c) Aeolic: Lesbian, Thessalian, Boeotian; (d) Arcadian and Cyprian; (e) Pamphylian.

(5) Albanian.

(6) : (a) Latin, from which are derived the modern Romance languages; (b) Oscan, Umbrian.



(8) : (a) Gothic; (b) the   group, including 1. Swedish, Gutnish, Danish; 2. Norwegian, Icelandic; (c) the  group, including 1. Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), now English; Frisian; Old Saxon, now Low German; Dutch, Flemish; 2. Old High German, now German.

(9) : (a) the   group: Old Prussian, Lithuanian, Lettish; (b) the   group: Old Bulgarian; Russian, Bulgarian, Illyrian; Czech, Sorabian, Polish, Polabian.

(10) Tocharish, recently discovered in East Turkestan.

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