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"If so, then Goidelic had to have arrived earlier, either with Beakers, or earlier."

It was distinct in some points from the Goidelic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Highlands of Scotland.

At the time of the Roman conquest the Celts were divided into two linguistic groups, Goidelic, represented at the present day by Irish, Manx and Scotch Gaelic, and Brythonic, including Welsh, Cornish and Breton.

The Brythonic dialects have gone very much farther in giving up inflectional endings than Goidelic.

These are the Goidelic, the tongue spoken by the Celts of Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, and the Brythonic, the language of the Welsh, the Cornish, and the people of Brittany.