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3 - Interlude: A View from the Celtic Island
Peter Trudgill, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Book:

The Long Journey of English

Published online:

25 May 2023

Print publication:

08 June 2023, pp 31-41
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Britain was amonolingual Celtic-speaking island for at least a millennium before Roman colonisers brought Latin to England in AD 43, during the reign of the Emperor Claudius. A description of the geographical spread across Britain of early forms of English is therefore equivalent to a description of the geographical retreat of the Brittonic Celtic language which had preceded Germanic to the island by hundreds of years. This retreat led to Cornish, Welsh and Cumbric eventually becoming separated from one another geographically and eventually linguistically.