Pictish language

E454259
Celtic language extinct language

The Pictish language was an extinct language once spoken by the Picts in what is now northern and eastern Scotland, known primarily from place names and a few inscriptions.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Pictish 1
Pictish (early) 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Celtic language ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ
associatedWithSymbolStones true ⓘ
attestedIn Ogham inscriptions ⓘ
king lists ⓘ
personal names ⓘ
place names ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Breton ⓘ
Brittonic languages ⓘ
Cornish ⓘ
Cumbric ⓘ
Old Welsh NERFINISHED ⓘ
documentationStatus poorly attested ⓘ
ethnicGroup Picts NERFINISHED ⓘ
evidenceType epigraphic evidence ⓘ
onomastic evidence ⓘ
toponymic evidence ⓘ
extinctionCause language shift to Gaelic and Old English ⓘ
glottocode pict1236 ⓘ
hasNoNativeSpeakers true ⓘ
hasNotableInscriptionSite Abernethy NERFINISHED ⓘ
Brandsbutt NERFINISHED ⓘ
Inchmarnock NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lunnasting NERFINISHED ⓘ
Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRunicInscriptions false ⓘ
hasSubstrateInfluence pre-Indo-European languages of Britain ⓘ
hasUncertainClassification true ⓘ
hasVeryLimitedCorpus true ⓘ
influencedToponymyOf eastern Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ
northern Scotland ⓘ
ISO639-3 xpi ⓘ
languageFamily Insular Celtic NERFINISHED ⓘ
P-Celtic ⓘ
primaryScholarlyDebate classification within Celtic or non-Indo-European ⓘ
regionNowPartOf Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ
replacedBy Northumbrian Old English NERFINISHED ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn Pictland NERFINISHED ⓘ
eastern Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ
northern Scotland ⓘ
studiedInField Celtic studies ⓘ
epigraphy ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ
timePeriod 1st millennium AD ⓘ
Early Middle Ages ⓘ
wentExtinctByCentury 10th century ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
Ogham script NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Insular Celtic languages → hasMember → Pictish language ⓘ
Alba → language → Pictish language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pictish (early)
Pictland → hasLanguage → Pictish language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pictish