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[[Prehistoric Ireland|Ireland was settled]], like the rest of [[northern Europe]], after the retreat of the [[ice sheet]]s c. 10,500 BC.{{Cite news|last=McDonagh|first=Marese|date=21 March 2016|title=Bear bone opens new chapter in Ireland’s archaeology|newspaper=The Irish Times|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/bear-bone-opens-new-chapter-in-ireland-s-archaeology-1.2581144|url-status=live|access-date=10 February 2021}} [[Indo-European language]]s are usually thought to have been a much later arrival. Some scholars hypothesize that the Goidelic languages may have been brought by the [[Beaker culture|Bell Beaker]] culture circa 2500 BC. The 2500 BC time period is supported by DNA analysis indicating large-scale Indo-European migration to Britain circa 2500 BC {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Nick |title= Large-Scale Migration into Britain During the Middle to Late Bronze Age |year=2021 }} In contrast, other scholars argue for a much later date of arrival of Goidelic languages to Ireland based on linguistic evidence. [[Peter Schrijver]] has suggested that Irish was perhaps preceded by an earlier wave of Celtic speaking colonists (based on population names attested in [[Ptolemy]]’s [[Geography (Ptolemy)|”Geography”]]) who were displaced by a later wave of proto-Irish speakers only in the 1st century AD, following a migration in the wake of the [[Roman conquest of Britain]], with Irish and [[Brittonic languages|British Celtic languages]] only branching off from a common Insular Celtic language around that time.{{Cite book|last=Schrijver|first=Peter|title=Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-0-415-35548-3|location=New York, London|pages=79–85}} |
[[Prehistoric Ireland|Ireland was settled]], like the rest of [[northern Europe]], after the retreat of the [[ice sheet]]s c. 10,500 BC.{{Cite news|last=McDonagh|first=Marese|date=21 March 2016|title=Bear bone opens new chapter in Ireland’s archaeology|newspaper=The Irish Times|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/bear-bone-opens-new-chapter-in-ireland-s-archaeology-1.2581144|url-status=live|access-date=10 February 2021}} [[Indo-European language]]s are usually thought to have been a much later arrival. Some scholars hypothesize that the Goidelic languages may have been brought by the [[Beaker culture|Bell Beaker]] culture circa 2500 BC. The 2500 BC time period is supported by DNA analysis indicating large-scale Indo-European migration to Britain circa 2500 BC {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Nick |title= Large-Scale Migration into Britain During the Middle to Late Bronze Age |year=2021 }} In contrast, other scholars argue for a much later date of arrival of Goidelic languages to Ireland based on linguistic evidence. [[Peter Schrijver]] has suggested that Irish was perhaps preceded by an earlier wave of Celtic speaking colonists (based on population names attested in [[Ptolemy]]’s [[Geography (Ptolemy)|”Geography”]]) who were displaced by a later wave of proto-Irish speakers only in the 1st century AD, following a migration in the wake of the [[Roman conquest of Britain]], with Irish and [[Brittonic languages|British Celtic languages]] only branching off from a common Insular Celtic language around that time.{{Cite book|last=Schrijver|first=Peter|title=Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-0-415-35548-3|location=New York, London|pages=79–85}} |
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The Goidelic substrate hypothesis refers to the hypothesized language or languages spoken in Ireland before the arrival of the Goidelic languages.
Hypothesis of non-Indo-European languages[edit]
Ireland was settled, like the rest of northern Europe, after the retreat of the ice sheets c. 10,500 BC.[1] Indo-European languages are usually thought to have been a much later arrival. Some scholars hypothesize that the Goidelic languages may have been brought by the Bell Beaker culture circa 2500 BC. The 2500 BC time period is supported by DNA analysis indicating large-scale Indo-European migration to Britain circa 2500 BC [2] In contrast, other scholars argue for a much later date of arrival of Goidelic languages to Ireland based on linguistic evidence. Peter Schrijver has suggested that Irish was perhaps preceded by an earlier wave of Celtic speaking colonists (based on population names attested in Ptolemy‘s Geography) who were displaced by a later wave of proto-Irish speakers only in the 1st century AD, following a migration in the wake of the Roman conquest of Britain, with…
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