The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

132 PH@NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

remains the recognized classification of the “ Celtic dialects, of which the Gaelic is considered to be the more primitive

and older. CEeLtic Group oF LANGUAGES.

I. Gallic oy Cymric. Il. Gaelic or Erse. . Cymric or Welsh . Fenic or Erse or Irish . Cornish (now extinct) . Gaelic or Highland Scottish . Armorican or Breton . Manx

[* Celtic ” proper]

Oo Wm HA

Oo WH

Still further had the Celtic theory grown apace. This so-called ‘‘ Celtic Race ’’ was also called “ Ayvyan”’ in race, when it was observed that their language was akin to the languages which had latterly been classed as “ Aryan.” This essentially racial title of ‘* Aryan ’’ had been introduced into English and other European languages by the discovery, in 1794, by the erudite Sir William Jones, the Chief Justice of Calcutta, that the Sanskrit language of the ancient Hindoos, who called themselves “ Arya,’ was radically and stucturally of the same type as the Old Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, English, and German (or “ Teutonic’’) languages of Europe,’ and that the culture and mythology of the ancient Hindoos were essentially analogous to that of Ancient Greece and Rome and of the Goths. The physical appearance also of the purer Hindoos, claiming to be the descendants of the highly civilized ancient Aryas, resembled generally that of the North European peoples of Britain and Scandinavia. It was then assumed that the ancient ‘‘ Aryas ’’ who civilized India and Persia or Iran, and gave them their ‘‘ Aryan’ speech were presumably of the same common racial stock as the ancestors of the civilizers of Greece and Rome and Northern Europe, who had in prehistoric time civilized Europe and imposed on it their ““ Aryan” speech. This Indo-European stock of people was thus called ‘‘ The Avvan Race” ; and the name ‘Aryan’ was extended also to their several languages and dialects, which were classed as “* Aryan’ or“ Indo-European,” or by usurping German writers “ Indo-Germanic.” Thus

1 This fact was fully established by F. Bopp, of Berlin, in 1820, in his

Analytical Comparison of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Germanic Languages, and by subsequent writers,