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Which modern languages belong to the Goidelic group of Celtic languages?
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The Goidelic group, also known as Q-Celtic, is one of the two primary branches of the modern Celtic languages. The modern languages that belong to this group are:
These languages originated in Ireland and are linguistically distinguished from the Brythonic group (which includes Welsh, Cornish, and Breton) by their retention of the k or q sound, which evolved from an ancestral Indo-European form, whereas the Brythonic languages developed a p sound.123