Journal of Celtic Linguistics

Journal of Celtic Linguistics is published by University of Wales Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Linguistics and language evolution, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation and Linguistic Variation and Morphology, together about 52.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Celtic Linguistics publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of the linguistics of the Celtic languages, modern, medieval and ancient, with particular emphasis on synchronic studies, while not excluding diachronic and comparative-historical work. This journal is of great interest to students of languages and Celtic studies, as well as members of the general public interested in the linguistic progression within Celtic languages and linguistic history. The editor is Lecturer in the Welsh Department at Aberystwyth University, and is supported by an editorial board including representatives from Oxford and Cambridge universities, and from universities across Europe and North America. Papers are invited in English, French or German on all fields/‘levels’ of analysis; phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics; formal or functional, cross-language typological or language-internal, dialectological or sociolinguistic, any theoretical paradigm.Mae’r Journal of Celtic Linguistics yn cynnwys erthyglau ac adolygiadau ar bob agwedd ar ieithoedd Celtaidd - modern, canoloesol a hynafol - gyda phwyslais arbennig ar astudiaethau syncronig, a heb eithrio gwaith diacronig a hanesyddol-gymharol. Y mae’r cyfnodolyn hwn yn ddefnyddiol i fyfyrwyr sydd yn astudio ieithoedd ac astudiaethau Celtaidd, yn ogystal â darllenwyr sy’n ymddiddori yn hanes datblygiadau’r ieithoedd Celtaidd. Mae’r golygydd yn Ddarlithydd yn Adran y Gymraeg, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, ac yn cydweithio â’r bwrdd golygyddol sydd â chynrychiolaeth o brifysgolion Rhydychen, Caergrawnt, ac o brifysgolion ledled Ewrop a Gogledd America.

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Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.27LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.03LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

5OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

4OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.12OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Publisher

University of Wales Press

ISSN

0962-1377

Electronic ISSN

2058-5063

Official links

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