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 ...

It is unclear whether the Picts were Celts or not, although the evidence of placenames accepted as Pictish tends to suggest they were, speaking a variety of Brythonic Celtic language, similar to ...

After all, populations spatially between northern Germany and Ireland, the Brythonic Celts, are presumably going to be genetically between these two populations as well. That being said, space is not ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...