Common Brittonic, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain
The Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain during the 500s marked the beginning of a decline in the language, as it was gradually replaced by Old English.
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Pritenic (also Pretanic) is a modern term that has been coined to label the language of the inhabitants of northern Great Britain during Roman rule in southern Great Britain (1st to 5th centuries AD).
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Britain from Pritani = "People of the Forms" (cf. Welsh Prydain "Britain", pryd "appearance, form, image, resemblance")
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Common Brittonic was used with Latin following the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, at least in major settlements.
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Katherine Forsyth (1997) reviewed these names and considers more of them to be Celtic, still recognizing that some names of islands and rivers may be pre-Indo-European.
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Common Brittonic (also called Common Brythonic, British, Old Brythonic, or Old Brittonic) was an ancient P-Celtic language spoken in Britain.
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The place names of Roman Britain were discussed by Rivet and Smith in their book of that name published in 1979.
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Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic