15-04-2013, 05:46 PM
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Re: Foreign Languages?
Well my mother tongue is obviously Welsh,and I speak English, but I am also fluent in BSL. And am sorry to say Grouse, but Welsh is the nearest you can possibly get to Ancient British, "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was originally compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great in approximately 890, and subsequently maintained and added to by generations of anonymous scribes until the middle of the 12th century, starts with this sentence: “The island Britain is 800 miles long, and 200 miles broad, and there are in the island five nations; English, Welsh (or British), Scottish, Pictish, and Latin. "The language used in Iron Age Britain (south of firth of forth) developed into Old Welsh, Cumbric, Cornish and Breton by 600 AD, and as Welsh is still used it is of course also the oldest language in the UK.
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