Before the Roman invasion, most inhabitants of the British Isles were said to speak the ancestral language Brythonic (Brittonic) which modern Celtic languages can be traced back to. English is the ...

Insular Celtic was split into two groups; P-Celtic (Brythonic) and Q-Celtic (Goidelic). This difference came about due to phonetic changes and disparities between the branches – Goidelic (Q ...

With the prospect of the forthcoming Six Nations Championship already beginning to loom large in people's minds, many red-blooded Welsh men and women (and Irish and Scots, too, come to that) have ...

and Welsh form the p-Celtic or Brythonic group. Each group is linguistically distinct. Welsh and Irish speakers wouldn't be able to understand each other, though the two languages are both Celtic.

Over in Scotland the name Glasgow is thought to derive from the Brythonic Celtic "Cleschi" meaning 'Dear Green Place'. As many of us may know 'glas' means the colour 'blue' in the Welsh language.

All Celtic tongues share a broad language group but with distinct subfamilies; Gaelic languages are of the Goidelic branch while the Brythonic branch covers the rest. The United Language Group ...

The modern Celts were therefore linguistically identified as Brythonic (Welsh, Breton and Cornish) and Goidelic (Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx). The author concentrates his commentaries along two ...

Boudica is believed to have been born in Camulodunum, the ancient Roman name for the Brythonic Celtic Camulodunum, or “stronghold of Camulos.” Camulos, or Camulus, was a war god that the ...

St. Piran (March 5) is patron saint of Cornwall. Cornwall and Wales share the Brythonic Celtic language and culture family. Combining elements of a gymanfa ganu (hymn sing) and a nosen lawen ...