Langenesis

Indo-European family

Common Brittonic

c. 500 BCE – 550 CE Reconstructed

Common Brittonic (c. 500 BCE – 550 CE) is a reconstructed Indo-European language. It has 8 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Celtic → Common Brittonic.

See Common Brittonic on the interactive map

Ancestor of Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Cumbric, spoken across most of Britain before Anglo-Saxon settlement.

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

Descendants 4

Sister languages 4

Also descended from Proto-Celtic.

Sources