Some of English’s more distant relative include Hindi, Persian and the Celtic languages it displaced in what it is now, British.

某些与英语有着相对遥远联系的语言，包括北印度语、波斯语和凯尔特语，这些语言在不列颠已经被取代。

When the Romans invaded in 56 A. D. , most people on the island spoke Celtic languages.

当罗马人在公元 56 年入侵时，岛上的大多数人都说凯尔特语。

But of course, very few people today speak Celtic languages, like Welsh or Scots Gaelic.

当然，今天很少有人会说凯尔特语，比如威尔士语或苏格兰盖尔语。

At that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language.

当时英国的居民讲凯尔特语。

AZUZ : Ten-second trivia: Welsh is a Celtic language that's still spoken in what country?

AZUZ：十秒小知识：威尔士语是凯尔特语，哪个国家仍在使用？

And the third language is of course Scot's Gaelic, so not Gaelic in Ireland it's pronounced Gaelic, but in Scotland it's Gaelic, and it is a Celtic language.

第三种语言是苏格兰人的盖尔语，在爱尔兰不叫盖尔语，不过在苏格兰是盖尔语，是凯尔特语。

Other Celtic languages, such  as Celtiberian, Galatian, and Gaulish, are no longer spoken in modern times.

其他凯尔特语，如凯尔特比利亚语、加拉太语和高卢语，在现代已不再使用。

The Celtic languages descended from proto-Celtic, believed to have developed during the  Hallstatt period – 1200 BCE – 450 BCE.

凯尔特语起源于原始凯尔特语，据信是在哈尔施塔特时期（公元前 1200 年至公元前 450 年）发展起来的。

The various Celtic languages spoken today are  typically divided into either Brittonic or Goidelic, also known as Gaelic.

今天使用的各种凯尔特语通常分为不列颠语或盖尔语，也称为盖尔语。

The Celtic language survives today only in the Gaelic languages of Scotland and Ireland, the Welsh of Wales, and the Breton language of Brittany.

凯尔特语仅存在于苏格兰和爱尔兰的盖尔语、威尔士的威尔士语和布列塔尼的布列塔尼语中。

The dominant " Celtics from the East" theory places  Hallstatt culture in Austria, giving way to the La Tene culture and the Celtic language.

占主导地位的“来自东方的凯尔特人”理论将哈尔施塔特文化置于奥地利，让位于拉泰内文化和凯尔特语。

Around two million people in northwestern  Europe are native speakers of a Celtic language, including 562,000 people in Wales, which  is nineteen percent of its population.

欧洲西北部约有 200 万人以凯尔特语为母语，其中威尔士有 562,000 人，占其人口的 19%。

Hundreds of different tribes  that spoke some version of the Celtic language existed throughout Europe, but they rarely, if  ever, came together to form a unified culture.

整个欧洲有数百个讲某种凯尔特语的不同部落，但他们很少（如果有的话）聚在一起形成统一的文化。

Still, there are many speakers of a Celtic language in  Wales, and almost everyone in Europe can trace their ancestry back to at least one Celtic tribe.

尽管如此，威尔士仍有许多人使用凯尔特语，几乎每个欧洲人的祖先都可以追溯到至少一个凯尔特部落。

In all over Western Europe, we see cities with Celtic names, like London, Paris, Vienna, Milan, Ghent, and Zurich, none of which are home to the few surviving Celtic languages.

在西欧各地，我们都看到以凯尔特语命名的城市，如伦敦、巴黎、维也纳、米兰、根特和苏黎世，但这些城市都不是少数幸存的凯尔特语的故乡。

Most Welsh, Scottish and Cornish people don't speak the old Celtic languages these days, either, although many people are trying to revive them, to bring the old languages back to life.

如今，大多数威尔士人、苏格兰人和康沃尔人也不会说古老的凯尔特语言，尽管许多人正在努力复兴它们，让古老的语言重新焕发活力。