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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-10 11:18 AM
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3. What was the difference (in Bede's reference) between the British and English languages?
Edited on Wed Mar-31-10 11:19 AM by eShirl
..."Bede (a monk and historian who died in 735) writes that there are four languages in Britain in this time: British, Pictish, Scottish and English"
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  -Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered n2doc  Mar-31-10 10:25 AM   #0 
  - very cool  FirstLight   Mar-31-10 10:37 AM   #1 
  - To Some Academics The Picts allegedly had a Non Indo-European language  Ichingcarpenter   Mar-31-10 10:43 AM   #2 
  - Isn't Gaelic itself non-indo-european? It's weirdly unlike any other language  kestrel91316   Mar-31-10 11:41 AM   #4 
  - ? It's in the Celtic branch of Indo-European languages.  eShirl   Mar-31-10 11:49 AM   #5 
  - Naw, Pictish was probably a Brythonic Celtic language, related to Welsh  Odin2005   Apr-01-10 08:38 AM   #12 
  - What was the difference (in Bede's reference) between the British and English languages?  eShirl   Mar-31-10 11:18 AM   #3 
  - My guess is this:  semillama   Mar-31-10 12:10 PM   #6 
     - That makes too much sense  eShirl   Mar-31-10 12:49 PM   #8 
  - Mebbie now we'll know what they were grooving about. n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Mar-31-10 12:14 PM   #7 
  - Yoo Pict mah brainz!!  Fumesucker   Mar-31-10 04:28 PM   #9 
  - very cool  nickinSTL   Mar-31-10 10:02 PM   #10 
  - SO! A pictish is worth a 1000 words?  ZeitgeistObserver   Mar-31-10 10:17 PM   #11 
  - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict n/t  never cry wolf   Apr-01-10 11:43 AM   #13 
  - There have been a number of attempts to apply  Igel   Apr-02-10 08:51 PM   #14 
 

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