Eg someone in 10th century Galloway probably spoke Gaelic, Norse, Old English and Cumbric
June 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Eg someone in 10th century Galloway probably spoke Gaelic, Norse, Old English and Cumbric
Torpenhow Hill isn’t in Wales. It’s in Cumbria, whose extinct language- Cumbric- was similar to Welsh (like Cornish & Breton.) The locals pronounce it, “Trepenner.”
January 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Torpenhow Hill isn’t in Wales. It’s in Cumbria, whose extinct language- Cumbric- was similar to Welsh (like Cornish & Breton.) The locals pronounce it, “Trepenner.”
A surprising number of people don't appear to realise that Scottish Gaelic & Scots are two completely different languages. My goal for 2025 is to write a book on the history of Scottish languages. Gaelic, Scots, Cumbric, Pictish, Norn, & Scottish English.
January 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
A surprising number of people don't appear to realise that Scottish Gaelic & Scots are two completely different languages. My goal for 2025 is to write a book on the history of Scottish languages. Gaelic, Scots, Cumbric, Pictish, Norn, & Scottish English.
I've started writing a book I've been planning for years, a History of Scottish languages. I've just completed the 1st draft of chapt 1 & made a good start on chapt 2. The book will cover Gaelic, Scots, Scottish English, Pictish, Cumbric Norse/Norn, the languages of Scottish Travellers & more.
August 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I've started writing a book I've been planning for years, a History of Scottish languages. I've just completed the 1st draft of chapt 1 & made a good start on chapt 2. The book will cover Gaelic, Scots, Scottish English, Pictish, Cumbric Norse/Norn, the languages of Scottish Travellers & more.
divided into P & Q forms. Manx, Irish & Scots Gaelic are Q & can be understood by fluent speakers.
Welsh, Cornish & the extinct Cumbric are P forms. St Patrick is believed to possibly have spoken Cumbric. Gaelic speakers do not understand these languages without learning them.
Welsh, Cornish & the extinct Cumbric are P forms. St Patrick is believed to possibly have spoken Cumbric. Gaelic speakers do not understand these languages without learning them.
June 11, 2026 at 10:41 AM
divided into P & Q forms. Manx, Irish & Scots Gaelic are Q & can be understood by fluent speakers.
Welsh, Cornish & the extinct Cumbric are P forms. St Patrick is believed to possibly have spoken Cumbric. Gaelic speakers do not understand these languages without learning them.
Welsh, Cornish & the extinct Cumbric are P forms. St Patrick is believed to possibly have spoken Cumbric. Gaelic speakers do not understand these languages without learning them.
Glengarry Glen Ross in Cumbric
September 22, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Glengarry Glen Ross in Cumbric
Fauld yer hochs or haud gaun.
Sit down or keep going.
Seat:
Sate (Scots);
Suidheachan (Gaelic);
Cadeir (Cumbric).
#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #streetphotography #man #settee #seat #bridge #Gaelic #Cumbric #CelticLanguages #Strathclyde #Scotland
Sit down or keep going.
Seat:
Sate (Scots);
Suidheachan (Gaelic);
Cadeir (Cumbric).
#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #streetphotography #man #settee #seat #bridge #Gaelic #Cumbric #CelticLanguages #Strathclyde #Scotland
August 9, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Fauld yer hochs or haud gaun.
Sit down or keep going.
Seat:
Sate (Scots);
Suidheachan (Gaelic);
Cadeir (Cumbric).
#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #streetphotography #man #settee #seat #bridge #Gaelic #Cumbric #CelticLanguages #Strathclyde #Scotland
Sit down or keep going.
Seat:
Sate (Scots);
Suidheachan (Gaelic);
Cadeir (Cumbric).
#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #streetphotography #man #settee #seat #bridge #Gaelic #Cumbric #CelticLanguages #Strathclyde #Scotland
Nice Cumbric (Brythonic) name. We have similar names in Cymru like Blaenau and Cadair Idris (also a fine mountain).
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Nice Cumbric (Brythonic) name. We have similar names in Cymru like Blaenau and Cadair Idris (also a fine mountain).
A peasant in 1100s Ayrshire may have spoken Gaelic at home, Scots to his lord's steward, French to his lord, and vaguely remembered grandpa's Cumbric.
August 7, 2024 at 1:23 PM
A peasant in 1100s Ayrshire may have spoken Gaelic at home, Scots to his lord's steward, French to his lord, and vaguely remembered grandpa's Cumbric.
Yan, tan, tethera, methera, pimp.
Sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick.
Cumbric counting is very fun to say.
Sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick.
Cumbric counting is very fun to say.
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Yan, tan, tethera, methera, pimp.
Sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick.
Cumbric counting is very fun to say.
Sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick.
Cumbric counting is very fun to say.
I always have to remind myself that one of the most celebrated "Welsh" poets (Taliesin) was actually Cumbric.
March 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
I always have to remind myself that one of the most celebrated "Welsh" poets (Taliesin) was actually Cumbric.
Hiking past Pen-y-ghent, an English peak so distinctive that it got to keep its Cumbric (Celtic) name.
The Pen- element of its name recognisably meant 'peak', but the -ghent bit is debated. It was possibly 'summit of the foreigners' (from Latin gentem), referring to the pagan Norsemen of Yorkshire.
The Pen- element of its name recognisably meant 'peak', but the -ghent bit is debated. It was possibly 'summit of the foreigners' (from Latin gentem), referring to the pagan Norsemen of Yorkshire.
August 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hiking past Pen-y-ghent, an English peak so distinctive that it got to keep its Cumbric (Celtic) name.
The Pen- element of its name recognisably meant 'peak', but the -ghent bit is debated. It was possibly 'summit of the foreigners' (from Latin gentem), referring to the pagan Norsemen of Yorkshire.
The Pen- element of its name recognisably meant 'peak', but the -ghent bit is debated. It was possibly 'summit of the foreigners' (from Latin gentem), referring to the pagan Norsemen of Yorkshire.
Another one for Friday #scape day....
Limestone stack, Pen-y-Ghent, Yorkshire Dales, UK. April 2006
The name Pen-y-Ghent is thought to be Cumbric Celtic al language that predates the Romans in Britain.
#Classicmono #BlackandWhite #Photography #EastCoastKin #Landscape #History
Limestone stack, Pen-y-Ghent, Yorkshire Dales, UK. April 2006
The name Pen-y-Ghent is thought to be Cumbric Celtic al language that predates the Romans in Britain.
#Classicmono #BlackandWhite #Photography #EastCoastKin #Landscape #History
February 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Another one for Friday #scape day....
Limestone stack, Pen-y-Ghent, Yorkshire Dales, UK. April 2006
The name Pen-y-Ghent is thought to be Cumbric Celtic al language that predates the Romans in Britain.
#Classicmono #BlackandWhite #Photography #EastCoastKin #Landscape #History
Limestone stack, Pen-y-Ghent, Yorkshire Dales, UK. April 2006
The name Pen-y-Ghent is thought to be Cumbric Celtic al language that predates the Romans in Britain.
#Classicmono #BlackandWhite #Photography #EastCoastKin #Landscape #History
One of the five Viking-Age Govan hogbacks, which probably dates to c. 900.
It was carved in the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons, a Cumbric / Northern Brittonic people who are remembered in Cymry as part of Yr Hen Ogledd (The Old North).
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It was carved in the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons, a Cumbric / Northern Brittonic people who are remembered in Cymry as part of Yr Hen Ogledd (The Old North).
My 📷 @govanstones.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
One of the five Viking-Age Govan hogbacks, which probably dates to c. 900.
It was carved in the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons, a Cumbric / Northern Brittonic people who are remembered in Cymry as part of Yr Hen Ogledd (The Old North).
My 📷 @govanstones.bsky.social
It was carved in the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons, a Cumbric / Northern Brittonic people who are remembered in Cymry as part of Yr Hen Ogledd (The Old North).
My 📷 @govanstones.bsky.social
And it would be funny if they revived cumbric and took away northern england as well
September 14, 2026 at 2:46 AM
And it would be funny if they revived cumbric and took away northern england as well
I just spent 20 minutes going down an internet rabbit hole to discover when Cumbric, a Brittonic language close to Welsh, might have gone extinct in southwestern Scotland. (No later than 13th century.)
🎨 Hogweard, 'Map showing the extent of the Kingdom of Strathclyde around 900 AD' (Wikimedia)
🎨 Hogweard, 'Map showing the extent of the Kingdom of Strathclyde around 900 AD' (Wikimedia)
June 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I just spent 20 minutes going down an internet rabbit hole to discover when Cumbric, a Brittonic language close to Welsh, might have gone extinct in southwestern Scotland. (No later than 13th century.)
🎨 Hogweard, 'Map showing the extent of the Kingdom of Strathclyde around 900 AD' (Wikimedia)
🎨 Hogweard, 'Map showing the extent of the Kingdom of Strathclyde around 900 AD' (Wikimedia)
I should add that Cornish was once more widely spoken in Britain & was pushed Westwards, like Cumbric & Welsh by the invading hoards of Anglo-Saxons et. al. [Stop the Boats!] so that these languages were restricted to reservoirs in the far west of the island.
June 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM
I should add that Cornish was once more widely spoken in Britain & was pushed Westwards, like Cumbric & Welsh by the invading hoards of Anglo-Saxons et. al. [Stop the Boats!] so that these languages were restricted to reservoirs in the far west of the island.
My latest blog piece, a new instalment in my occasional series on Scotland's other languages. Scotland's severed tongues, Norn
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Scotland’s severed tongues: Norn
Some months ago I published a piece on Scotland’s severed tongues, Pictish and Cumbric, languages which used to be spoken in Scotland but which became extinct centuries ago. See Nevertheless,…
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April 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My latest blog piece, a new instalment in my occasional series on Scotland's other languages. Scotland's severed tongues, Norn
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As a follow-up to what I was saying about the development of languages like Welsh, Cumbric and Cornish in the post-Roman period, here's a random map showing the spread of villas in Roman Britain. I should probably have included something like this in the article.
March 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
As a follow-up to what I was saying about the development of languages like Welsh, Cumbric and Cornish in the post-Roman period, here's a random map showing the spread of villas in Roman Britain. I should probably have included something like this in the article.
Cumbric didn't survive else I wonder what type of discourse would emerge between it and Welsh
March 3, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Cumbric didn't survive else I wonder what type of discourse would emerge between it and Welsh
with Cumbric (a close relative of Welsh) and Pictish (most likely a close relative of Cumbric) the dominant languages elsewhere. English spread from the south and Gaelic spread from the west. Since the loss of Cumbric and Pictish, Scotland has been mainly Gaelic, Scots, and English speaking.
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
with Cumbric (a close relative of Welsh) and Pictish (most likely a close relative of Cumbric) the dominant languages elsewhere. English spread from the south and Gaelic spread from the west. Since the loss of Cumbric and Pictish, Scotland has been mainly Gaelic, Scots, and English speaking.
Pendle Hill = Hill Hill Hill, via pen (Cumbric for “head, top, or hill”) + hyll (Old English for “hill” — the early form of Pendle being Penhul) + hill.
Similarly, Bredon Hill = Hill Hill Hill, via *breɣ (Brittonic for "hill") + dūn (Old English for “hill”) + hill.
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Similarly, Bredon Hill = Hill Hill Hill, via *breɣ (Brittonic for "hill") + dūn (Old English for “hill”) + hill.
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May 9, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Pendle Hill = Hill Hill Hill, via pen (Cumbric for “head, top, or hill”) + hyll (Old English for “hill” — the early form of Pendle being Penhul) + hill.
Similarly, Bredon Hill = Hill Hill Hill, via *breɣ (Brittonic for "hill") + dūn (Old English for “hill”) + hill.
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Similarly, Bredon Hill = Hill Hill Hill, via *breɣ (Brittonic for "hill") + dūn (Old English for “hill”) + hill.
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they won't have by then! Cumbric was more or less extinct by the 11th century at latest
February 2, 2024 at 3:53 PM
they won't have by then! Cumbric was more or less extinct by the 11th century at latest