Brittonic

E520568
branch of Insular Celtic languages language group

Brittonic is a branch of the Insular Celtic languages that historically included Welsh, Cornish, Breton, and several now-extinct languages once spoken in Britain.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Brittonic languages 3
Brythonic languages 3
Common Brittonic 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Insular Celtic languages ⓘ
language group ⓘ
alsoKnownAs British Celtic NERFINISHED ⓘ
Brythonic NERFINISHED ⓘ
branchOf Insular Celtic NERFINISHED ⓘ
contrastedWith Goidelic NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDescendant Modern Breton NERFINISHED ⓘ
Modern Cornish NERFINISHED ⓘ
Modern Welsh NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature lack of case inflection on nouns in later stages ⓘ
prepositional pronouns ⓘ
use of inflected prepositions ⓘ
verb–subject–object word order tendency ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature initial consonant mutation ⓘ
hasSubgroup Breton ⓘ
Cornish ⓘ
Cumbric NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pictish ⓘ
Southwestern Brittonic NERFINISHED ⓘ
Welsh ⓘ
Western Brittonic NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalRegion Britannia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ
Cornwall NERFINISHED ⓘ
Cumbria NERFINISHED ⓘ
Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hen Ogledd NERFINISHED ⓘ
Strathclyde NERFINISHED ⓘ
Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced Breton vocabulary ⓘ
Cornish place names ⓘ
English place names ⓘ
Scottish place names ⓘ
Welsh toponymy ⓘ
languageFamily Celtic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages
partOf Northwest Indo-European continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ
reconstructedFrom comparative evidence of Breton ⓘ
comparative evidence of Cornish ⓘ
comparative evidence of Welsh ⓘ
inscriptions in Roman Britain ⓘ
subclassOf Celtic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Insular Celtic languages ⓘ
timeDepth Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ
Roman Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sub-Roman Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (17)

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

Britons of Strathclyde → ethnicity → Brittonic ⓘ
Proto-Brythonic → follows → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Common Brittonic
Leoneg → hasAncestor → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Common Brittonic
Tregerieg → hasAncestor → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Common Brittonic
sub-Roman Britain → hasLanguage → Brittonic ⓘ
Galatian language → hasLexicalSimilarityWith → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brythonic languages
Valentia → language → Brittonic ⓘ
Leoneg → languageBranch → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brythonic languages
Britons of Strathclyde → languageFamily → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brittonic languages
Proto-Brythonic → languageSubbranch → Brittonic ⓘ
Britannia → languageUsed → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brittonic languages
soldiers of Coroticus → languageUsed → Brittonic ⓘ
Cornish → subfamily → Brittonic ⓘ
Middle Welsh → subfamily → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brittonic languages
Celtic tribes → subgroup → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brittonic tribes
Cornish → subgroup → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southwestern Brittonic
Welsh people → usesLanguageBranch → Brittonic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brythonic languages