* British language ( Celtic ), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton

* British language, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as an Insular Celtic language.

It comes from a Brythonic language community ( see image ) that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica ( present-day Brittany ) and which had even established a toehold in Galicia ( in present-day Spain ).

These are the Goidelic Irish ( Gaeilge ) and Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) descended from Old Irish, and the Brythonic Welsh and Breton descended from the British language.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

Latin, the common language of the church, Old English, the language of the Angles and Saxons, Irish, spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland, Brythonic, ancestor of the Welsh language, spoken in large parts of western Britain, and Pictish, spoken in northern Britain.

Brythonic Celtic culture and language spread into Scotland at some time after the 8th century BC, possibly through cultural contact rather than through mass invasion, and systems of kingdoms developed.

They lived to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde, and spoke the extinct Pictish language, thought to have been related to the Brythonic languages spoken by the Britons to the south.

For this reason, it is now widely, but not universally, supposed that the Gaelic language had long been present in the area of Dál Riata, perhaps since the Insular Celtic languages had divided into Goidelic and Brythonic branches.

The name Gododdin is the Modern Welsh form ; it is derived, via Old Welsh Guotodin from the Brythonic language word Votadini, attested in Greek texts from the Roman period.

In the post-Roman period, Lothian was dominated by Brythonic speakers whose language is generally called Cumbric and was closely related to Welsh.

In Cumbria there remain a number of place names from Cumbric, the former Brythonic language of this region, examples including Carlisle, Helvellyn and Blencathra.

Cornish being a Brythonic language, such names show some similarity to Welsh and Breton.

The river's name appears to derive from a Brythonic Celtic language but there is a strong early English connection.

* The Welsh language or the Brythonic languages more generally

Poetry written in Latin, Brythonic ( a predecessor language of Welsh ) and Old Irish survives which may date as early as the 6th century.

The resident population at this time was generally speaking Brythonic — the insular variety of continental Celtic which was influenced by occupation by the Romans.

Isca is derived from a Brythonic Celtic word for flowing water, which was given to the River Exe.

In the south was the British ( Brythonic ) Kingdom of Strathclyde, descendants of the peoples of the Roman influenced kingdoms of " The Old North ", often named Alt Clut, the Brythonic name for their capital at Dumbarton Rock.

Searching for Llywarch's kingdom has led some historians to propose that, as was common in later Brythonic kingdoms, Rheged may well have been divided between sons, resulting in northern and southern successor states.

This was due to the widely recognised ability of the P-Celtic or Brythonic letter ' P ' to transform into the Q-Celtic or Gaelic letter ' C '.

From the 8th century on, Wales was by far the largest of the three remnant Brythonic areas in Britain, the other two being the Hen Ogledd and Cornwall.

Originally a Brythonic settlement called * Durou ̯ ernon ( composed of the ancient British roots * duro-" stronghold ", * u ̯ erno-" alder tree "), it was renamed Durovernum Cantiacorum by the Roman conquerors in the 1st century AD.

Caratacus ( Brythonic * Caratācos, Greek Καράτακος ; variants Latin Caractacus, Greek Καρτάκης ) was a first century British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the Roman conquest.

Older reference works tend to favour the spelling " Caractacus ", but modern scholars agree, based on historical linguistics and source criticism, that the original Brythonic form was * Caratācos, pronounced, which gives the attested names Caradog in Welsh, Karadeg in Breton and Carthach in Irish.

It was bounded on the west by the Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde, and to the north by the Picts.

Some historians think that Asterio held a religious office which combined elements of the pagan and Christian religions, while others think he may be linked to the Brythonic refugees that settled in Britonia ( Galicia ) in the 6th century: The Parrochiale Suevorum ( an administrative document of the Suebi Kingdom ) tells that the lands of Asturias belonged to the Britonian see, and it is a fact that some features of the Celtic Christianity penetrated in Northern Spain, like the Celtic tonsure which was condemned by the Visigoth bishops who assisted to the Fourth Council of Toledo.

This was later Latinised into Luguvalium and later still was derived to Caer-luel ( Caer meaning fort in Brythonic ).

" Strath of the Clyde "), originally Brythonic Ystrad Clud, was one of the early medieval kingdoms of the celtic people called the Britons in the Hen Ogledd, the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and northern England.

The earliest recorded name for the town was ' Aberbrothock ', a reference to the Brothock Burn which runs through the town, the prefix ' Aber ' coming either from the Gaelic ' Obair ', or the earlier term ' Aber ' which could be either Goidelic or Brythonic for ' river mouth '.

One is that the upper reaches of the Arun, away from the sea, was once known as the Arnus, from the Brythonic word Arno, meaning run or go.

During its pre-history the area which later became Ripon was under the control of Brythonic tribe the Brigantes, and three miles ( 5 km ) north at Hutton Moor there is a large circular earthwork created by them.

This may reflect the name of a preceding Brythonic kingdom or province, which was subsequently adopted by the Anglian settlers and rendered as Bernice or Beornice in the Old English tongue.

The Brythonic kingdom of the area was formed from what had once been the southern lands of the Votadini, possibly as part of the division of a supposed ' great northern realm ' of Coel Hen in c. AD 420.

The early part of Edwin's reign was possibly spent finishing off the remaining resistance coming from the Brythonic exiles of the old British kingdom, operating out of Gododdin.

Lothian's distinction from Northumbria is indicated in the survival of its original Brythonic Celtic name, used even by English Chroniclers.

In Breton ( which with Welsh and Cornish belongs to the Brythonic branch of Insular Celtic languages ), " on sea " is war vor ( Welsh ar y môr ), though the older form arvor is used to refer to the coastal regions of Brittany, in contrast to argoad ( ar " on / at ", coad " forest " ar goed ( coed " trees ") for the inland regions.

There is textual and archaeological evidence that districts such as Trigg were used as martially points for ' war hosts ' from across the region, likely to have also included troops from overseas evidenced by corresponding place names in Brittany — a recurring motif of Brythonic Arthurian myth originating in this period, such as Tristan and Iseult.

The term " Cumbric " is strictly a geographical one, used by linguists to refer to the evidence for a Brythonic language within a particular area of northern England and Southern Scotland.

Cromlech is a Brythonic word ( Breton / Welsh ) used to describe prehistoric megalithic structures, where crom means " bent " or " curved " and llech means " slab " or " flagstone ".

Ogham ( or ;,, Modern Irish or ) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the Old Irish language, and the Brythonic language.

However, Roman historians used the word " Caledonius " not only to refer to the Caledones themselves, but also to any of the other tribes ( both Pictish or Brythonic ) living north of Hadrian's Wall, and it is uncertain whether these later were limited to individual groups or wider unions of tribes.

The terms Goidelic and Brythonic were first used to describe the two Celtic language families by Edward Lhuyd in his 1707 study and, according to the National Museum Wales, during that century " people who spoke Celtic languages were seen as Celts.