Theosophy Wales, UK:- Pages About Wales.The Welsh Language and its Relationship to the Indo-European Group of Languages

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Wales is a Principality within the United Kingdom and has an eastern border with England. The land area is just over 8,000 square miles. Snowdon is the highest mountain at 3,650 feet. The coastline is almost 750 miles long. The population of Wales as at the 2001 census is 2,946,200.

Theosophy Wales is pleased to present

general pages about Wales, Welsh History

and The History of Theosophy in Wales

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The Welsh Language

and its Relationship to the Indo European Group of Languages

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The Family Tree of

Indo-European Languages

Brittonic or Brithonic refers to the Celtic language spoken in Britain which eventually broke up into Cumbric, Welsh, Cornish and Breton.

Cumbric or Cumbrian was the Celtic language spoken in Cumbria, North West England and which died out in the middle ages. There is not enough written Cumbric surviving to reconstruct the language but some shepherds in the Lake District are known to count their sheep in Cumbric.

The last native speaker of Cornish, the Celtic language of Cornwall in South West England, died in 1774 but the Cornish language has been revived.

Welsh in Wales and Breton in Brittany, Northern France still flourish as working official languages with both native and new speakers.

Native Breton speakers can usually understand Cornish. This is because the Bretons are descended from Celts who migrated to Brittany (France) from South West Britain during the Anglo-Saxon invasion.

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