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Common Brittonic

Common Brittonic is an old language that people used to speak in Britain a long time ago, before they started speaking English. It was spoken by people called Britons who lived in Britain a really long time ago, before even the Romans came to Britain.

Common Brittonic has a lot of similarities with other old languages spoken in Europe, like Latin and Greek. That's because they all came from the same language family called the Indo-European language family.

We don't know a lot about Common Brittonic because there aren't many written records of it. But we do have some old stories that were told in Common Brittonic, and we can learn a lot from these stories about how the people who spoke this language lived and what they believed.

Nowadays, people don't really speak Common Brittonic anymore because it evolved into other languages like Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. But it's still important to study and understand it because it tells us about the history of the people who lived in Britain a long, long time ago.