Celtic Britons
The Britons *Pritanī, Latin: Britanni, also required as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons were the Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age & into the Middle Ages, at which unit they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish as alive as Bretons among others. They talked the Common Brittonic language, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages.
The earliest or done as a reaction to a impeach evidence for the Britons is from Hadrian's Wall became the edge of the empire. A Romano-British culture emerged, mainly in the southeast, & British Latin coexisted with Brittonic. it is for unclear what relationship the Britons had to the Picts, who lived outside the empire in northern Britain, though almost scholars now accept that the Pictish language was closely related to Common Brittonic.
Following the end of Roman dominance in Britain during the 5th century, Anglo-Saxon settlement of eastern and southern Britain began. The culture and Linguistic communication of the Britons fragmented, and much of their territory gradually became Anglo-Saxon, while small parts of the northwest became Gaelic. The extent to which this cultural conform was accompanied by wholesale population alter is still debated. During this time, some Britons migrated to mainland Europe and instituting significant colonies in Brittany now factor of France, the Channel Islands, and Britonia now factor of Galicia, Spain. By the 11th century, Brittonic-speaking populations had split into distinct groups: the Welsh in Wales, the Cornish in Cornwall, the Bretons in Brittany, the Cumbrians of the Hen Ogledd "Old North" in southern Scotland and northern England, and the remnants of the Pictish people in northern Scotland. Common Brittonic developed into the distinct Brittonic languages: Welsh, Cumbric, Cornish and Breton.