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[Liam Proven]

2009/7/31 Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be>:
> Op zondag 26-07-2009 om 15:01 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Liam Proven:
>> The Welsh are the true "native British"
>
> Not exactly, they are descendents of the gaelic people who drove away
> and/or assimilated with the early native inhabitants of the British
> isles (in Scotland those are known as the "picts").

With the disclaimer than I am an amateur linguist, but not an
anthropologist or prehistorian...

Gaelic peoples and Celtic peoples are just 2 branches of the same
thing, pretty much. There may have been pre-Celtic people in Britain
before the Celts came, but it's hard to trace culture from what little
prehistoric relics are left.

I think it would be fair to describe the Picts in Scotland and the
Welsh in Wales as 2 relics of the original Celtic population of
Britain, displaced to the far North and West respectively by the
invading Saxons, Vikings, Normans and so on.

In other words, not one before the other, but as 2 roughly
contemporaneous groups.

But although this is an interesting discussion, it is /amazingly/
off-topic... 8¬)

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