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English is the most widely spoken and de facto official language of the United Kingdom. [13] A number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional English variant languages are Scots and Ulster Scots; indigenous Celtic languages are Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.
The Britons (*Pritanī, Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), also known as Celtic Britons [1] or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous 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]
SIL Ethnologue lists six living Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers. These are the Goidelic languages (i.e. Irish and Scottish Gaelic , which are both descended from Middle Irish ) and the Brittonic languages (i.e. Welsh and Breton , which are both descended from Common Brittonic ).
It was subsequently adopted by the Cornish Language Board [82] and was the written form used by a reported 54.5% of all Cornish language users according to a survey in 2008, [83] but was heavily criticised for a variety of reasons by Jon Mills and Nicholas Williams, including making phonological distinctions that they state were not made in the ...
Brittonic languages, also known as the British Celtic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family Common Brittonic, an ancient language, once spoken across Great Britain. Welsh language, spoken natively in Wales and the England-Wales border, is historically referred to in English as the British language (among other names).
The Celtic languages (/ ˈ k ɛ l t ɪ k / KEL-tik) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic. [1] The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, [2] following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described by classical writers and the ...
Goidelic languages were once the most prominent by far among the Scottish population, but are now mainly restricted to the West. The Beurla-reagaird is a Gaelic-based cant of the Scottish travelling community related to the Shelta of Ireland. [4] The majority of the vocabulary of modern Scottish Gaelic is native Celtic.
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