A Handbook of West Country Brythonic – The Forgotten Celtic Tongue of South West England c 700 AD (‘Old Devonian’)<\/em><\/a>, has attempted to reconstruct parts of the language using place names and the modern Celtic languages as a guide.<\/p>\nHere’s his version of the Lord’s Prayer in Old Devonian:<\/p>\n
Hagon tat so in nefou,
\nsanktedhit bedhet dhe hanu,
\ndefu dhe ruanteleth,
\ndhe fodh gwraet bedhet en doar fel en nef,
\nroit dhen hedhiu hagon bara peb dedh,
\nhak (pardon) dhen hagon kamuedh,
\nfel (we pardon) dhen re-na (who) hagon kamuol,
\nhak na en tentation,
\nmat deliurit ni dherak druk.<\/p>\n
Here it is in the other P-Celtic languages:<\/p>\n
Breton<\/strong><\/p>\nHon Tad, pehini zo enn env,
\nhoc’h hano bezet santified ;
\nho rouantelez deuet deomp ;
\nho polontez bezet great
\nvar ann douar evel enn env.
\nRoit d’eomp hirio hor bara pemdeziek
\nha pardounit d’eomp hon ofansou
\nevel ma pardounomp d’ar re \u00e0 deuz honz offanset ;
\nha na bermettit ket e kouezfemp e tentasion ;
\nmes hon dilivrit diouz ann drouk.
\nEvelse bezet great !<\/p>\n
Cornish<\/strong><\/p>\nGen Taz, leb es, en N\u00eav,
\nbenegas beth de Hanno,
\nDe Gulasketh doaz, –
\nDe Both beth gur\u00eaz en \u2018aor –
\npokar en Nev, Ro do ny hidhu –
\ngen bara pob D\u00eath, ha Gava do ny
\ngen pehazo, pokara ny Gava an Gy,
\nneb es peha, war agen bidn, ha –
\nna dro ny en Antall, buz gwitha
\nny dhort droge, Rag De ew an
\nGlasketh, ha an Nerth,
\nha an Gworyans, Bounaz heb diuath.<\/p>\n
Welsh<\/strong><\/p>\nEin Tad, yr hwn wyt yn y nefoedd,
\nSancteiddier dy enw.
\nDeled dy deyrnas.
\nGwneler dy ewyllys,
\nmegis yn yr nef, felly ar y ddaear hefyd.
\nDyro i ni heddiw ein bara beunyddiol dynedded
\nA maddau i ni ein dyledion,
\nfel y maddeuwn ninnau i’n dyledwyr.
\nAc nac arwain ni i brofedigaeth;
\neithr gwared ni rhag drwg.
\nCanys eiddot ti yw’r deyrnas,
\na’r nerth, a’r gogoniant, yn oes oesoedd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Someone mentioned to me today that they had studied a bit of Old Devonian. This was the first this I’d heard of that language, and after some searching, I found a bit of information about it. Old Devonian or Westcountry Brythonic was apparently a Celtic language that was spoken in parts of Devon, Somerset and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}