Indo-European family

Middle Welsh

c. 1150 CE – 1500 CE Extinct

Middle Welsh (c. 1150 CE – 1500 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Celtic → Common Brittonic → Old Welsh → Middle Welsh.

See Middle Welsh on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
wlm

The language of the Mabinogion and most medieval Welsh manuscripts.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Celticc. 1,200 BCE – 800 BCE
  3. Common Brittonicc. 500 BCE – 550 CE
  4. Old Welshc. 800 CE – 1150 CE
  5. Middle Welshc. 1150 CE – 1500 CE

Descendants 1

Sources