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Population genetics has a way of enhancing the reputation of linguists, because they predicted just such a bottleneck. When Irish first appears on ogham stones it has no dialectical variation at all, suggestive of a recent expansion. This is from Peter Schrijver.pic.twitter.com/LfUXjcuGzc
One possibility that most men died off in the Irish Dark Age, the other is that the Irish are actually very, very recent migrants out of Britain. The Celtic linguist Schrijver suggests that Irish and Brythonic are so closely related that they only split around the 1st century AD:pic.twitter.com/1YGK7kjy6B
so in a nutshell intra-celtic tribal warfare and replacement?
Schrijver is of the opinion that a non Indo-European language was spoken in Ireland in the Common Era, responsible for a number of words of unknown etymology that begin with the letter P, which was absent in Old Irish.
its possible it couldve spread from cornwall and the isle of white which whouldve been in contact with the atlantic and hence in contact with iberian q celtic languages, it couldve existed as a q celtic brythonic language similar to the relationship between west and east baltic
Pyyjead the Greek who discovered the Pretanic Isles, then including Iceland, in the bronze age gives Brythonic names for parts of Ireland (Gaelic elsewhere). Celtic from the West proponents suggest the Phonecian takeover of the http://metal.trade.in 900BC broke "Celtic*.
Pytheas. Damn eyesight.
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