Langenesis

Indo-European family

Primitive Irish

c. 300 CE – 600 CE Extinct

Primitive Irish (c. 300 CE – 600 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 5 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Celtic → Primitive Irish.

See Primitive Irish on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
pgl

Earliest attested Goidelic, known only from Ogham inscriptions.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Celticc. 1,200 BCE – 800 BCE
  3. Primitive Irishc. 300 CE – 600 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 4

Also descended from Proto-Celtic.

Sources