Common Brittonic (Welsh: Brythoneg; Cornish: Brythonek; Breton: Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, [4] [5] is a Celtic language historically spoken in Britain and Brittany from which evolved the later and modern Brittonic languages.

The modern Brittonic languages are generally considered to all derive from a common ancestral language termed Brittonic, British, Common Brittonic, Old Brittonic or Proto-Brittonic, which is thought to have developed from Proto-Celtic or early Insular Celtic by the 6th century BC.

2023年10月18日 · Before the Roman invasion, most inhabitants of the British Isles were said to speak the ancestral language Brythonic (Brittonic) which modern Celtic languages can be traced back to.

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]

2023年2月4日 · Brythonic, also known as Brittonic Languages or British Celtic, is defined as “of, relating to, or characteristic of the Celtic languages that include Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.” Brythonic languages derived from the Common Brittonic language spoken across Great Britain during the Iron Age and Roman periods.

2023年12月28日 · One deals with the ‘British’ side of the equation, which comprises a few contemporary literary texts and a collection of (mostly short and formulaic) inscriptions, together with the evidence for early contact with Latin afforded by the later-recorded Celtic languages.

Old Briton (also called Proto-Briton) was a language spoken in Britain. It was the language of the Britons. By the 6th century it split into several Brittonic languages: Welsh, Cumbric, Cornish, and Breton.

The language spoken in Britain when the Romans arrived is usually considered to have been ancient Welsh or Kumric but the evidence is growing that this may not have been the case.

Ancient language and extra-Indo-European language in Britain. by Linden Alexander Pentecost, February 2022. I have always felt connected to the Celtic languages, and to the people who speak them. Celtic languages are classified as Indo-European languages.

2019年9月25日 · During the first millennium AD, Britain was home to four major languages, each of which had arrived from a different point of the compass. The first was Britonnic Celtic, the ancestor of Breton and Cornish, which had come to the south coast of this island from across the English Channel, perhaps as long as 4,000 years ago.