American: dialect of the Maya spoken in Guatemala.

Celebese.

The native dialects of Celebes or Macassar, a large island in the Eastern Sea; all are allied to Batta.

⁂ Bugis and Mangkasar divide between them the S. Peninsula of Celebes. P. J. V. ☞

Celt-Iberian.

A name for early dialects of Spain, chiefly found on coins of the Roman era, with characters framed on the Old Italic. See [Basque].

Celtic or Keltic.

A branch of the Aryan or Indo-European family of languages. See Ebel: “Celtic Studies by Sullivan,” London, 1863; Zeuss: “Grammatica Celtica,” Berlin, 1868-71.

⁂ It contains two classes: 1, the Cymric, which includes Welsh, Cornish (now extinct), and Bas-Breton; 2, the Gadhelic, which includes Erse, or Irish, Gaelic (spoken in the Highlands of Scotland), and Manx (spoken in the Isle of Man). W. W. S.