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Chapter XIII FS AND Q'S WE have seen that with one notable exception, to explain the early history of the Wiros since httle 1889, attempt has been made and the position of the Aryan hypothesis has remained stationary.' It is true that fresh evidences of such languages have been discovered in the uplands of Asia, and a new group, known as Tocharian,* have been identified. Certain affinities to the group have also been noted in the Hittite language, which has been claimed by some writers to be a true Wiro tongue,' But this view has not received general acceptance. Little use, however, has been made of this fresh evidence towards solving the problem of the Aryan cradle. But early in 1891 an important communication was made to the Philological Society by Professor, afterwards Sir, John Rhys.* This paper raised a storm of hostile criticism, especially in Germany,' and its conclusions have not found favour in philological circles. As, however, some of Sir John's conclusions coincide in certain particulars with the reconstruction offered in the previous pages, based on other evidence, the thesis demands reconsideration. To summarise briefly, Rhys pointed out that the Celtic languages, now confined to the north-western fringe of Europe, fell naturally into two well-defined groups. One of these, the Gaelic, or as he preferred to call it the Goidehc, was spoken in Ireland, North-West Scotland and the Isle of Man. The other, formerly called Cymric, but by Rhys styled Brythonic, was spoken in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. There are several marked differences between these two groups of languages, the most important being ' The best summaries up to this date are Taylor (1889) and Reinach (1892). » Sieg and Siegling (1921) 3 Hrozny {1917). 4 Rhys (1894). 3 Zimmer (1912) ; Meyer (1895-6) 55-86. 144
FS AND Q'S 145 that the C in the Goidelic, which represents an earher Q or Qu, is replaced in Brythonic by a P or perhaps a B. Thus the Celtic languages fall into two well-defined groups which may be called the Q and P dialects. Rhys pointed out, too, that in the ItaUan peninsula the same phenomenon appeared. In Latin, and the dialects most closely allied to it, Q or Qu was found, while in the Urabrian forms of speech, used over the greater part of the peninsula this sound was replaced by P. Thus thore were Q and P dialects in Italy also. He further pointed out that the Greek language, with certain exceptions, was a true P dialect, for the Latin equus corresponded to the Greek iinrhi. He suggested, however, that the Ionic dialect used by Herodotus and Hippocrates, which frequently had a k where the standard Greek had a w,^ was a descendant of a form of Q speech, but that the Qu had degenerated into k, as it had into C in Goidelic. Further, he pointed out that the Q dialects, GoideUc, Latin and Ionic Greek, formed so to speak an outer ring, while Brythonic, Umbrian and standard Greek lay within them. He argued from this that these tongues had spread in two waves from a common centre, which he fixed in the mountain zone of Central Europe, and thence the Q tongues had spread by invasion, to be followed some few centuries later by a second invasion of P people, who had driven the Q people further from the original home. He suggested that the change of Q into P had been effected by a conquering group of aliens, who had adopted the Wiro tongue from their subjects, but retained some details of the phonological laws of their original language, which accounted for this labialisation. He further suggested that these ahen invaders were the Alpine inhabitants of the Swiss lake-dwellings.^ This paper was received with hostile criticism and derision, especially by some German students of Celtic tongues.* It had little better reception in France, and the British and Irish Celtic scholars, with a few exceptions, treated the idea with contempt. The theory has never received the consideration and fair criticism which a paper from so eminent an authority on Celtic languages deserved. The main facts as to the Celtic and Itahc dialects are not in dispute. There can be no question that in both of those areas both Q and P groups are or were in existence, ' Rhys (1894) 119. ' Zimmer (1912); Meyer (1895-6) 55-86. 7 Rhys (1894) 122, 130. 10
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THE BRONZE AGE AND THE CELTIC WORLD
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THE CELTIC CRADLE 67 suggests that
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THE CELTIC CRADLE 69 of these were
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