Cambrien (Celtic language)

See also: Cambrien (homonymy)

The Cambrien is a Celtic Langue group brittonic, spoken in the island about probably extinct Brittany to the top Moyen-âge, not having survived the invasions of the Germanic people.

It is known for us only by three words inserted in a Latin text : Light inter Brettos and Scottos . These three words are “galnys”, “mercheta” and “kelkyn” whose equivalents in Welsh modern are “galanas”, “merch” and “cylch” (into Breton “merc' H” and “kelc' H”, for the two last). Proper names also appear in the Vie of saint Kentigern . It is in toponymy that this language seems to have left the most traces.

The zone of phrase was on both sides current limit between the Scotland and the England, of the west coast, in the kingdoms of Rheged, Gododdin and the Strathclyde. Some advance that the bards Taliesin and Aneurin of the VIe century would have composed their works in this language. According to the texts of the latter which reached us, it would hardly be different from the Welsh old, better known, nor probably of the brittonic language spoken at that time in the island about Brittany.

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Sources and bibliography

  • Herve Abalain, Wales, identity, modernity , Editions Ermine, Crozon, 2000.
  • Myles Dillon, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, Christian-J. Guyonvarc' H and Francoise the Russet-red, Celtic Kingdoms , Editions Ermine, Crozon, 2001.
  • Christian Y.M. Kerboul, Kingdoms brittonic with the Very Early middle ages , Coop Breizh, Spézet, 1997.
  • Arzel Even, rear Istor yezhoù keltiek (History of the Celtic languages), 2 volumes, Hor Yezh, Lesneven, 1962.

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