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Is Cornish a Celtic language?
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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.
Along with Welsh and Breton, Cornish is descended from the Common Brittonic language spoken throughout much of Great Britain before the English language came to dominate.
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.
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
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
Breton is closely related to Cornish and less closely related to Welsh, though these languages are not mutually intelligible. Breton has also absorbed quite a lot of vocabulary from French, Latin, and probably from Gaulish languages, which are now extinct. Breton is also distantly related to Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic .
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.
