Brittonic Language

The brittonic languages are Indo-European Langues, group of the Celtic Langues.

The group brittonic gathers:

  • the Breton ,
  • the Cornique,
  • the Welsh,
  • and the Cambrien (extinct for a long time).

The question of the date of the divergence between languages Gaelic S and brittonic highly remains discussed, but it is certain that these two branches were different before the appearance of the first texts about the year 600. Following the surge of Germanic speakers of languages in Great Britain during the 5th century, of the speakers of brittonic languages settled in mass in Armorique (the current Brittany), and in less quantity in Galicia, and in the Leinster in Ireland. The brittophones remained nevertheless widespread during several centuries in southernmost Scotland, in the north and the west of the England, and with the island of Man. But the progressive rise of the Gaëls (Celtic of Irish source) and of the Anglo-Saxon finally made limit the brittophones to the three countries which remain to them today: the Brittany, the Cornouailles, and the Wales.

A linguistic feature makes it possible to distinguish the brittonnic languages from the gaelic languages: there is an alternation between the phoneme “K” particular to gaelic and the phonemes “p” or “B” which correspond to him into brittonic. It is noticed besides that, in the Italic languages, cousins of the Celtic languages, the Latin is a language with “K” and the Osque a language with phoneme “p” (to compare quinque and Pompeï ).

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