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Cumbric was a variety of the Common Brittonic language spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" in what is now the counties of Westmorland, Cumberland, northern Lancashire in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. [2]
The language eventually began to diverge; some linguists have grouped subsequent developments as Western and Southwestern Brittonic languages. Western Brittonic developed into Welsh in Wales and the Cumbric language in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" of Britain (modern northern England and southern Scotland), while the Southwestern dialect became Cornish in Cornwall and South West England and ...
The Brythonic languages are a language family of the Celtic languages. They are spoken in Brittany, Wales and Cornwall. While going extinct in the rest of the British Isles, the (recognised) regions include: Cumbria and Scotland, while still debated, Common Brittonic [1] was widely spoken across England . There are three Brythonic languages:
Comment. "Brittonic" is more Latinate and less Cambro-centric, since the alternate form commonly used by scholars, Brythonic, is derived from the Welsh word Brython "Briton", itself an ancient borrowing from Latin nominative singular Brittō (more precisely, an oblique singular Britton-) or nominative plural Brittones.
Category. : Southwestern Brittonic languages. Articles relating to the Southwestern Brittonic languages, Brittonic Celtic languages spoken in what is now South West England (later confined to Cornwall ), and Armorica (later confined to Brittany) now in France, since the Early Middle Ages .
Cornish is a Southwestern Brittonic language, [28] a branch of the Insular Celtic section of the Celtic language family, which is a sub-family of the Indo-European language family. [29] Brittonic also includes Welsh, Breton, Cumbric and possibly Pictish, the last two of which are extinct. Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx are part of the separate ...
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