Editing Primitive Irish (section)

{{Short description|Pre-6th century Goidelic Celtic language of Ireland and Britain}}
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{{distinguish|Old Irish}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Primitive Irish
| altname          = Archaic Irish<br />Proto-Goidelic
| image            = Ogham Stone.jpg
| imagecaption     = Ogham stone from [[Ratass Church]], 6th century AD. It reads: {{sc|[a]nm sillann maq vattillogg}}<br />("[in the] name of Sílán son of Fáithloga")
| map              = Ogham map.png
| mapcaption       = Map of locations where Orthodox [[Ogham]] inscriptions have been found.
| region           = [[Ireland]] and [[Great Britain|Britain]]
| states           = [[Ireland]], [[Isle of Man]], western coast of [[Great Britain|Britain]]
| era              = Evolved into [[Old Irish]] about the 6th century AD
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Celtic languages|Celtic]]
| fam3             = [[Insular Celtic languages|Insular Celtic]]
| fam4             = [[Goidelic languages|Goidelic]]
| iso3             = pgl
| linglist         = pgl
| glotto           = prim1243
| script           = [[Ogham]]
}}

'''Primitive Irish''' or '''Archaic Irish'''<ref>{{cite book|title=Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia |author=Koch, John T. |author-link=John T. Koch |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-85109-440-0 |pages=986–1390 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC}}</ref> ({{langx|ga|Gaeilge Ársa, Gaeilge Chianach}}), also called '''Proto-Goidelic''',<ref>{{Cite thesis |type=PhD |url=https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/38484/ |title=The Prosodic Structure of Irish, Scots Gaelic, and Manx |first=Antony Dubach |last=Green |date=15 May 1997 |via=rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu |doi=10.7282/T38W3C3K}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Scannell |first=Kevin |date=May 2020 |title=Neural Models for Predicting Celtic Mutations |url=https://aclanthology.org/2020.sltu-1.1/ |journal=Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU) and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (CCURL) |language=en-us |pages=1–8 |isbn=9791095546351 |via=ACL Anthology}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwp/jcl/2020/00000021/00000001/art00007?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf|title=Interarticulatory Timing and Celtic Mutations |first=Joseph F. |last=Eska |date=1 January 2020 |journal=[[Journal of Celtic Linguistics]] |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=235–255 |via=IngentaConnect |doi=10.16922/jcl.21.7 |s2cid=213769085|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dubach Green |first=Antony |date=1996 |title=Some effects of the Weight-to-Stress Principle and grouping harmony in the Goidelic languages |journal=Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory |volume=11 |pages=117–155 |citeseerx=10.1.1.387.8008 }}</ref> is the oldest known form of the [[Goidelic languages]], and the ancestor of all languages within this family.

This phase of the language is known only from fragments, mostly personal names, inscribed on stone in the [[Ogham]] alphabet in Ireland and western Great Britain between the 4th and the 6th century AD,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stifter |first1=David |editor1-last=Ball |editor1-first=Martin J. |editor2-last=Müller |editor2-first=Nicole |title=The Celtic Languages |date=2009 |publisher=2009 |location=London; New York |isbn=978-0-415-42279-6 |page=55 |edition=2nd |url=https://www.academia.edu/19947896 |chapter=4. Early Irish}}</ref> before the advent of [[Old Irish]]. These inscriptions are referred to as [[Ogham inscription#Orthodox inscriptions|Orthodox Ogham]], although scholastic use of the script continued residually until the early 19th century.<!-- Does the cited source really say that? That would be well in the Old Irish period. FORMER TEXT: from around the 4th to the 7th or 8th centuries.<ref>{{cite book |first=Nancy |last=Edwards |title=The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2006 |page=103 |isbn=978-0-415-22000-2}}</ref> -->