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The history of the Welsh language ( Welsh: hanes yr iaith Gymraeg) spans over 1400 years, encompassing the stages of the language known as Primitive Welsh, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh, and Modern Welsh . Origins[edit] Welsh evolved from British, the Celtic language spoken by the ancient Britons.
Discover the origins and history of Britain’s oldest language, Welsh, and how it's used on a daily basis in modern Wales. If Welsh can seem complex and beautiful, it’s because it’s spent 4,000 years evolving.
19 apr 2012 · The history of the Welsh language. Welsh (Cymraeg) is the oldest language in Britain dating back possibly 4,000 years. The majority of European languages, including Welsh, evolved from...
29 lug 2017 · Up until 1850, 90% of the population spoke Welsh, but it has since faced a great many challenges which at times almost led to its extinction. Potentially up to 4,000 years old, Welsh is one of the oldest living languages in Europe. Welsh originates from the Celtic language spoken by the ancient Britons.
Janet Davies proposed that the origins of the Welsh language were much less definite; in The Welsh Language: A History, she proposes that Welsh may have been around even earlier than 600 AD. This is evidenced by the dropping of final syllables from Brittonic: * bardos 'poet' became bardd , and * abona 'river' became afon . [26]
In the south-west regions of Britain the language developed into the early foundations of Cornish and Welsh, whilst in the north of England and lowland Scotland the language evolved into Cumbric. Welsh spoken in the Middle Ages period, between 1000 and 1536, became known as Middle Welsh.
19 lug 2022 · Picture by Keith Ruffles (CC BY 3.0). 1.) The first Celtic language speaker arrives in Wales. DNA evidence suggests that at some point between 1000 and 850 BC, the first person speaking what eventually became Welsh and other Celtic languages arrived in Wales.
