Talk:Neo-Brittonic

Topic of the article
Currently, the article is a little ambiguous as to what its topic is: Is it about the modern Brittonic languages from a historical perspective (i.e. does it cover the entire period from AD 550 to the present) or is it about the specific more-or-less unified (reconstructed) language hypothesised to have been spoken between the sixth century and the eighth century (i.e. Archaic Common Neo-Brittonic)? I think it would be a good idea and would match the current content if the article were focussed on the latter, but then that should also be reflected in the lead. Felix QW (talk) 19:51, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Neo-Brittonic covers all of the British Celtic languages (Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Cumbric) from the middle of the 6th century CE through the present. Some scholars (most notably John Koch) use the term Archaic Common Neo-Brittonic for British Celtic from the mid-6th until the emergence of Old Welsh, Old Cornish, and Old Breton around the 9th century CE (see, for example, John Koch, "When Was Welsh Literature First Written Down?", Studia Celtica 20/21 (1985-86), pp. 43–66, as well as the lengthy introduction to his book The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain, Celtic Studies Publications, 1997.M.Aurelius.Viator (talk) 15:33, 1 November 2022 (UTC)