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The opening verses of the fourteenth-century Cornish play Origo Mundi. Prior to the 5th century AD, most people in Great Britain spoke a Brythonic language, but the number of these speakers declined sharply throughout the Anglo-Saxon period (between the 5th and 11th centuries), when Brythonic languages were displaced by the West Germanic dialects that are now known collectively as Old English.
The third plaque is the longest text discovered in any ancient Celtic language. However, this plaque is inscribed in Latin script. [45] Celtic is divided into various branches: Lepontic, the oldest attested Celtic language (from the 6th century BC). [46] Anciently spoken in Switzerland and in Northern-Central Italy.
The Britons (*Pritanī, Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), also known as Celtic Britons [1] or Ancient Britons, were the Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2]
Language Type Spoken in Numbers of speakers in the UK English: Germanic (West Germanic) : Throughout the United Kingdom UK (2021 data): 91.1% (52.6 million) of usual residents, aged three years and over, had English (English or Welsh in Wales) as a main language (down from 92.3%, or 49.8 million, in 2011) [22]
Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. [2] It was closely related to Old Welsh and the other Brittonic languages .
The Celtic word *kaitos is one of the Celtic words appearing most widely in British place-names, and those names are correspondingly important to understanding the phonological history of the Brittonic languages, and how Brittonic words have been borrowed into English and Gaelic.
Pictish, which became extinct around 1000 years ago, was the spoken language of the Picts in Northern Scotland. [3] Despite significant debate as to whether this language was Celtic, items such as geographical and personal names documented in the region gave evidence that this language was most closely aligned with the Brittonic branch of Celtic languages. [3]
Brittonic *Brittonikā, Brythonic, British Celtic Geographic distribution: Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, in antiquity all of Great Britain and the Isle of Man, during the Early Middle Ages in Northern England and Southern Scotland and other western parts of Britain, Pictland, Galicia