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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Celtic languages

The *Celts were driven west across Britain some 1400 years ago by the *Anglo-Saxons, and variants of their ancient language survive now only on the west coasts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The dialects are divided into two groups: Goidelic, the northern variety, which covers the *Gaelic spoken in Ireland and Scotland and until recently in the Isle of Man; and Brythonic, in the south, which includes *Welsh, Cornish and Breton, the language of Brittany in northwest France.
 








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