Neo-Brittonic, or Brettica, is a reconstructed form of Common Brittonic as it was spoken in now southern England circa 100-400 AD. It is being revived by Thomas Steres and a number of others, and is based on partially attested material in Gallo-Brittonic, Gaulish and Latinized Brittonic inscriptions, and comparative insights from closely related languages, such as Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Cumbric and Gaulish.
The main source of inspiration for Brettica originally drew from reconstructed Gaulish and Gallo-Brittonic for its lexical base. Inscriptive evidence provides the largest portion of it, guiding phonology, morphology and terminology. The language does not take borrowings from British Latin, instead sticking to a fully native-Celtic foundation of words derived from reconstructed Proto-Celtic and Gallo-Brittonic.
The Neo-Brettic alphabet is used as a modified form of the British Latin alphabet but with more phonemic spelling. Brittonic lenition is represented by doubling of consonants. (e.g. BB, DD, TT, etc). Brettica is not a descendant of Welsh or Breton but rather a parallel semi-attested form of their ancestor tongue, Common Brittonic. It functions as the following:
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Breton, Celtiberian, Cornish, Cumbric, Gaulish, Irish, Lepontic, Lusitanian, Manx, Neo-Brittonic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 08.12.25. Last modified: 14.01.26
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