| NOUN | a Brythonic language | Brythonic languages |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- All these names originate in the Celtic Brythonic languages, which pre-date the use of the Gaelic or Saxon tongues in Scotland, suggesting that they may go back to the time of some of the earliest settlements on Arthur's Seat.
- It is closely related to the other Brythonic languages, Breton and Welsh, and less so to the Goidelic languages.
- According to historian John Davies, the Brythonic languages spoken throughout Britain resulted from an indigenous "cumulative Celticity", rather than from migration.
- Brythonic languages have also had a long-term influence on the West Country dialects beyond Cornwall, both as a substrate (certain West Country dialect words and possibly grammatical features) and languages of contact.
- There are two main historical theories concerning the origin and development of the Gaelic languages from a Proto-Celtic root: the North Atlantic-based Insular Celtic hypothesis posits that Goidelic and Brythonic languages have a more recent common ancestor than Continental Celtic languages, while the Q-Celtic and P-Celtic hypothesis posits that Goidelic is more closely related to the Celtiberian language, while Brythonic is closer to the Gaulish language.
- A distinctive and unusual feature of Brythonic languages is a singulative marker, which in Breton is marked with the feminine suffix [...].
- The name probably derives from the Celtic languages (most likely Brythonic languages; ie Cumbric language) and means "rocky stream".
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