Brythonic languages
| Britonic | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: | Brittany Wales Cornwall Cumbria Scotland |
| Linguistic classification: | Indo-European |
| Proto-language: | Old Briton |
| Subdivisions: | |
The Britonic 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, Old Briton[1] was widely spoken across England.
Native speakers
[change | change source]Cornish is an extinct language.[2][3] A Cornish revival movement introduced the language to 557 people. Cornish is mainly a L2 (second language) for most, if not all, Cornish speakers.
Breton is spoken mostly in Brittany,[4] With small communities of speakers in North-West regional France, although it is "severely endangered" .
Welsh is spoken by around 20% of the total population of Wales. Welsh has over 700,000 speakers in the whole of the United Kingdom. Welsh and English are both official languages in Wales.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "WikiVisually.com". wikivisually.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
- ↑ "THE HISTORY OF THE CORNISH LANGUAGE". CelticLife International. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ↑ Parry, John (1946). "The Revival of Cornish: An Dasserghyans Kernewek". PMLA. 61 (1). Modern Language Association: 258–268. doi:10.2307/459233. JSTOR 459233. S2CID 163898565.
- ↑ UNESCO Atlas of the World's languages in danger.