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The Goidelic substrate hypothesis refers to the hypothesized language or languages spoken in Ireland before the Iron Age arrival of the Goidelic languages. ==Hypothesis of non-Indo-European languages== Ireland was settled, like the rest of northern Europe, after the retreat of the ice sheets c. 8,000 BC. Indo-European languages are usually thought to have been a much later arrival. Scholars have suggested that: * an older language or languages could have been replaced by the Insular Celtic languages and; * words and grammatical constructs from the original language, or languages, may nevertheless persist as a substrate in the Celtic languages, especially in placenames and personal names.〔Stephen Oppenheimer, ''The Origins of the British'' (''pinpoint or page cite needed'') (2009).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goidelic substrate hypothesis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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