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The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; Welsh: ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; Cornish: yethow brythonek/predennek; and Breton: yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic. It comprises the extant languages Breton, Cornish, and Welsh.
Common Brittonic (Welsh: Brythoneg; Cornish: Brythonek; Breton: Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, is an extinct Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany. It is a form of Insular Celtic , descended from Proto-Celtic , a theorized parent language that, by the first half of the first millennium BC, was ...
Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic. All of these are Insular Celtic languages, since Breton, the only living Celtic language spoken in continental Europe, is descended from the language of settlers from Britain.
Feb 4, 2023 · 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.
- Lauren Dillon
The Brythonic languages (from Welsh brython, “Briton”) are or were spoken on the island of Great Britain and consist of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. They are distinguished from the Goidelic group by the presence of the sound p where Goidelic has k (spelled c, earlier q ), both derived from an ancestral form * kw in the Indo-European parent language.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 24, 2024 · Cornish is most closely related to Breton, the Celtic language of Brittany in northwestern France. Cornish was strongly influenced by English even in medieval times, and later its orthography and vocabulary showed many English elements.
Welsh is closely related to Cornish and Breton, all three being twigs from the same branch, British, the Celtic language spoken in pre-Roman, Roman, and post-Roman Britain. Twigs from another branch are Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic.
