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They definitely didn’t say Welsh is derived from English! They said that Welsh is a Brittonic language, which along with Gaelic are Celtic languages.

Celtic languages like Irish, Manx, Scots Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish are unrelated to the Germanic languages English and Scots. The Celtic people and languages arrived in Ireland and Britain first and were displaced by the Anglo-Saxons and their Germanic languages.

Celtic languages don't originate from Germanic languages

5:42 The people who occupied Britain before the Anglo-Saxons were Celts who spoke the ancestral form of modern Welsh, called Brythonic. The oldest native British poem is an epic called "Y Gododdin", which isn't Anglo-Saxon (or English), but Brythonic/Old Welsh. It's wasn't written in Wales, though - much of it was probably composed in what we'd now call Scotland and/or Northern England, around 600 AD. BTW, Brythonic pre-dated English by several centuries, and is entirely separate from the Germanic branch of languages.

Irish is taught in all schools in Ireland and there is some schools that only speak Irish called a Gaelscoil

I promise you that long Welsh word is actually the real name of a town / village. There's a RU-vid clip of a Channel 4 weather man pronouncing it. X

You have places like “New Hampshire” because it’s literally named after the English county Hampshire, hence why it’s called “New” it’s the same with “New York”, which was named after the Duke of York.

The Anglo-Saxons didn’t kick out the Celtic Britons. It’s just that Anglo-Saxon culture became the dominant culture. Around 63% of all English people are descended from the Celts rather than the Anglo-Saxons. Or at least there genetic makeup is mostly Celtic Briton.

The Celtic languages did NOT derive from English. They aren’t closely related to it at all. The Celtic languages are way older than English

As my dear old father used to say "If you can get your tongue around our language (welsh) you will never displease a woman in bed" (if you get my meaning lol )

Im a welsh speaker and it always tickles me how only 30miles gives a different dialect in welsh language. Also the girl vlogging in welsh was saying that she had started a vlog channel because vlogging is very popular and the channel was evidently being recorded in welsh. The odd English word thrown in by her were used because those words are not available in Welsh e.g. Vlogging. We often adapt the spelling of English word to make them more wesh friendly e.g Channel becomes sianel, because of the sound (we spell things mostly phonetic).

I live right next to Cornwall and speak some of it due to my location and history. Just a correction: Cornwall is not on the edge of Wales, it is actually part of the westcountry which is the part of England underneath Wales (more specifically, it’s right at the end of it). Barely anyone down here speaks it but it genuinely is a lovely language. Also, you said Cornwall looks lovely. It is, along with Devon. Both Devon and Cornwall are known for their beaches and weather, often the main places to go on holiday if you don’t want to go abroad. I’d highly suggest coming down here next to you’re in the UK, see it for yourself.

The "original" people in this context were the ancestors of the Welsh. There are thought to be other groups of people living there before then but we don't know much about them. Basically, the Welsh and those of Welsh/Cornish descent are all that's left of the Brithonic people in the UK.

Cornwall is in England and it's beautiful, I've made it my mission to visit someday

Definitely do more Welsh stuff! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Btw the w in Welsh is mainly pronounced like the oo in cook

In the the Isle of man, the "man" bit comes from the "son of sea" "Mannanan" a warrior king in Irish mythology if i recall? Our flag is the Three Legs of Man, when companies on the Island use "man" in their title it is usually with two N's ie MannVend or Mann Plumbing and so on. When i was young we use to have manx lessons (language, dancing, and music) in the earlier years but i think it was something you had to take further yourself if you were interested in continuing it.

I'm sure you've figured out by now that Welsh isn't derived from English. Its roots are much older, although modern Welsh does borrow a lot. In fact, there are a lot of words that we've taken virtually verbatim but just changed the spelling to suit Welsh's phonetic rules. So, Ambulance is simply Ambiwlans in Welsh. Welsh has some words borrowed from Latin. For example, the Latin word for window is "fenestra". In Welsh, it's "ffenestr". I guess our ancestors didn't have their own word for window until the Romans showed up.

The Celtic sea God Mananan gives his name to the Isle of Man.

The Welsh language is definitely NOT from the Germanic as it pre dates the Anglo Saxon invasion by centuries. It is as old, if not older than the Gaelic languages.

There also used to be cumbric which was spoken in the north west of England. I can't remember exactly where from but i looked it up and some say it went from the mersey to the lowlands of scotland, some say it was in just cumbria. but sadly it's gone extinct now. i forgot to mention that some farmers in cumbria still use the cumbric words for numbers to count their sheep!

When he keeps on saying that the English expelled the original British people to the west, to become Welsh or Cornish, that is a traditional idea of how it happened, but I think historians now think it was more of a cultural take-over and not the ethnic cleansing that is implied here. After the Roman Empire left Britain it was pretty chaotic and germanic tribes, now called Anglo-Saxons, came and settled, but not in such huge numbers as to actually replace the people that were already here. It just came about that the Anglo-Saxon culture became more dominant, and spread through most of the country. It was pretty complicated, there were a lot of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and British kingdons, and they did fight against each other. But also, sometimes Anglo-Saxons allied with British people to fight against other Anglo-Saxons, and British kingdoms also fought other British kingdoms. So it wasn't just the English against the British. And also, there wasn't really such a thing as England, as such, until after the Viking invasions, when the Anglo-Saxons lost almost all dominance except in Wessex. It was the fight against the Vikings that really created a unified England.

It is a popular myth that the Anglo Saxons arrived on the British Isles and conquered their way across the country. The snag is that information mainly came from the writings of Gildas, a monk who gave a very distorted view. There is little archeological evidence of any battles, no evidence of mass graves etc, it is more likely that groups of Anglo Saxons settled in various areas and became politically and culturally dominant, absorbing the local British.

Thanks for speaking up for us Cornish/kernowek!

What I find most interesting. Is that, if one could travel back in time to England. Say 500 years. *We wouldn't be able to understand or talk to each other* . In *Geoffrey Chaucer* time... _“the first finder of our language.”_ His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. But it's almost impossible to read. I know.. because we were given it to study in my high school English class. lol

I am Scottish but live in wales :) I’d love more Welsh and Scots history xxxx Love your channel xxxx

The majority of parents who have children at my kids schools don't speak Welsh themselves - but want their children to be able to do

The Shire is a County Not a Town, City like a State.

All people who speak Welsh are bilingual & can speak and understand English perfectly

Take a look at "Why are British Place Names so Hard to Pronounce" by Jay Foreman.

Cornish and Welsh is a similar language

A shire is the old English word for county (scír). Many counties in the UK end with -shire, such as Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire etc. The head of the county was called the shiriff, from which we get the word sheriff.

The germanic and celtic language trees are completely separate trees when he shows the graphic. You’ll notice that English and Scots aren’t on the celtic diagram with welsh cornish gaelic and manx.

so everyone in england used to speak a language very similar to welsh untill the anglo saxons came and merged their germanic language with welsh to form old english. Welsh is a lot older than english but still survives in wales today

The Anglo-Saxons were also escaping the Huns from the east and flooding in their local area in the Angeln Peninsula. They also didn't conquer their way across England. There is archeological evidence of settlements of Britons and Saxons next to each other. Given that most English DNA is from the Britons it's more likely they assimilated into Anglo-Saxon culture.

hello favour, welsh is older than english and is no way connected with German. look for a youtube channel called julingo and have look at a video titled " about the welsh language. it's educational.

More historical content or back to the light hearted stuff- tv commercials, British memes/ iconic moments, RU-vidrs, etc 🤔 lmk and like the videooo 💛

The Goidelic speaking Celts arrived in Britain some time between the 12th and 9th centuries BC. Their language slowly displaced the unattested previous language of these islands which had been the lingua franca since the arrival of the Beaker Peoples at the beginning of the Bronze Age, about 1500 years earlier. The Brythonic speaking Celts arrived in Britain around the 5th century BC. Their language slowly replaced the Goidelic language throughout the island of Great Britain. The arrival of the Romans, en masse, in the first century AD led to the widespread adoption of 'pig' Latin as the new lingua franca but Brythonic still persisted at the margins of the Empire, where geographic isolation led to allopatric development into different languages: Cornish, Welsh (Cymraeg), Cumbric and Pictish. The withdrawal of the Romans in the 5th century AD left a vacuum which allowed new settlers to arrive from Continental Europe, bringing their Anglo-Saxon language with them. This Anglo-saxon language eventually developed into English. At the same time that the Anglo-saxon speakers arrived in Britain, Goidelic Celtic speakers from Ireland re-settled Western Scotland and Frankish speaking settlers, also from the area now known as Germany, settled in Gaul. Its modern name, France, deriving from these settlers. It was Frankish expansionism, from their homeland in Franconia, which led to most of the re-settlements around this time. The resulting Franconian Empire, known as Francia, would encompass both modern day France and Southern Germany. On the death of Pepin The Short, Francia would be split, under the rules of inheritance, between two brothers. The Western half falling to Charles (afterwards known as Charlemagne) and the Eastern half falling to Carloman. Carloman would evangelise the remaining Saxons, in Northern Germany, who the Franks dominated. Charles would later conquer Northern Italy, absorb his brother's kingdom, and rebrand his Empire as The Holy Roman Empire, adopting Latin as the Empirical tongue. This Frankish/Latin language would eventually become modern French. The Frankish language spoken in the Eastern half of the Empire would eventually become modern German. To say that the Germans invented the English language, apart from being completely wrong, is to ignore the history of Dark Age Europe. One could just as easily make the same, erroneous, claim about the French language. The only language the Germans actually invented was their own and that derives from Frankish origins.

The 3 legged motif of the Isle of Man is called a triskelion. Also happens to be used on the flag of Sicily

You need to do history of Britain in 20 minutes it’s a great video that will answer all your questions.

You should react to the Welsh Not to learn more about the history of our language 😢

What was your fav language?! 👀😁

Cornwall England is stunning

Wooo more welsh :)

would love a video more on the welsh language

Lovr this video and love that were I was born and bred is on here love the fact that I am cornish

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is actually a place in Wales, I’m welsh but we often shorten it to Llanfair PG as it just takes to long to say the full name

Unfortunately, that's a real town in Wales he wasn't pranking...Taron from Kingsman is from that town.

Old maps show the isle of Man as 'Ynish Mon', with a line above the 'o' meaning it should be lengthened when spoken. Ireland has place names with Inish- as a prefix, usually meaning 'island' The Irish, Manx and Scottish gaelics are a family which distantly relates to Welsh, Cornish and Breton in France. Within England there are some strong dialects that are more than accents as well! Norfolk on the East of England is a strong one.

None of these languages has germanic ancestry.. (they are all indo-european though..).

I don’t know why they didn’t include the Welsh for thank you at the end but it’s Diolch

As a man, I'm not one of your girlies.

The vikings were incredible boat builders. There boats were very fast; I think the fastest viking boat known was capable of 22 knots, although that was a cargo boat rather than a war boat. Actually the English did learn from the Vikings, because a few centuries later it's the English conquering everyone using their advanced maritime warfare technology.

What happened during the Anglo Saxon invasions is a bit of a mystery. It used to be thought the Anglo Saxons pushed the native British population west, but recent genetic studies showed the population barely changed. So best current theory is that the Anglo Saxons replaced the aristocracy and this caused a change in language. But this change was strangely rapid and complete and some academics suggest that the British tribes in the East already spoke a Germanic language

In simple terms the main language of the county of Cornwall, majority of England & Wales was a language similar to the Welsh today. The Anglo Saxons (Southern Scandinavians & Germans) invaded England and pushed the traditional 'Britons' to the edges, so the Welsh & Cornish people retained the Celtic language of the Britons at the time. You should do a whole video on Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English music, traditional songs/music, folk songs etc. The Irish and Welsh particularly are known for being lands of music and song.

It’s sucks that Gaelic is not taught in all of Scottish schools nowadays, this is due to our history with the England/crown. The language was outlawed in 1600s/1700s and forbidden in schools and church’s etc which is why it it’s freely spoken by everyone. Although most people I know know a few Gaelic word/phrases most people don’t speak it. It is on the road signs throughout the nation

Cymraeg is pronounced Cum-ryeg. He's not taking the piss, it's a real place, look it up. The places ending "Shire" are counties not cities. It was the English flag that was shown, Cornwall is part of England.

Fun fact: Wales means foreigners or outsiders in Anglo-Saxon Cymru (wales in welsh) means friends or fellow

Im from Plymouth which is a city which is right next to Cornwall and we had kids at my school who were from deep rural Cornwall and some got to do a Cornish GCSE exam as well

In Aberdeenshire they speak Doric. A very different language to Scot.

I believe the welsh vlog channel said "a" instead of "and" in welsh a by itself means and.

The Anglo Saxons originated in what is now northern Germany, northern Holland and Southern Denmark - the Angeln area of Schleswig, Lower Saxony, Frisia and even Jutland.

"Hello, and welcome to the channel. Make yourself comfortable." First two sentences translated for you.

Yes there were Celts in Iberia there are some influence in the north parts of Spain and Portugal. There is also a theory that the Celts come from Iberia by sea to the Ireland

It is compulsory to learn irish in most schools in ireland to join the irish police force you have to speak fluent irish. I was thought irish and French in school I can now speak very little irish ,but I am fluent in French. Very few people speak irish any more just certain areas where they get government funding to do so.

One of the languages the video said didn't stick around, Norn, is possibly about to be revived on Orkney and Shetland; similarly to how Cornish got revived.

Most celts weren't pushed out but intermarried with the Anglo Saxons to the point where some English populations can be 40% Celtic but as English as can be

Athelstan, largely forgotten now, was the first king of all England. Check out Michael Woods ‘In search of the Dark Ages - Athelstan’ on You Tube. I’ve spent a fair bit of time in the Scottish Highlands and picked up a smidgeon of Scots Gaelic, mainly from the songs of Runrig and Ralph Storer’s ‘100 Best Routes on Scottish Hills’ and a very basic ‘Teach yourself Gaelic’ book. Handy for saying where you are going, where you’ve been and reading maps!

My a drig yn Kernow hag a gews Kerneweg ... worth an gath ;-)

I’m really confused as to where she got that Welsh and Cornish came from Germanic

Before the Anglo Saxons, Jutes and Danes invaded the Romano Briton/Celts lived throughout UK.

I would love you to react to Welsh history/facts

All the Celtic languages pre date the Germanic influence which created the early English language. There is a lot of misconception about the roots where the Welsh language derived from, but it certainly wasn't Germanic or old English

W is a vowel in Welsh and is used as a oo in Welsh. Also, The English aren't native to the island originally, The Welsh and their language is the native People/Language of Britain. The Brittonic language. The Welsh once controlled what would become England and Southern Scotland.

Honoured to be one of your girlies 😂💕

Hiya Favour, have you been watching any of the Euro 2020 Tournament?

They all come from the Celtic tree apart from English/Scots. The Celts came from Central Asia to mainland Europe and to British isles probably from spain & France who have large Celtic populations, many pushed out by the Romans

interesting fact: Though not legally it's own Language, Scouse English is a legally distinct dialect from British English.

In the Welsh flog after she says hello and Welcome, what does she say.

'Wouldn't life be dull if everybody was the same' Tom Browns school days

There rumours that that the ancient Brits came from ancient city of troy look up Geoffrey of Monthmouth who was cleric from 12th century

Welsh also has different ways of saying things, like in South Wales you'd say Mike ydw i, instead of dwi Mike

He wasn’t taking the piss… That was a real town name…

I ain’t no girlie😂😂

The super long welsh town name is actually real. I can neither say it nor spell it.

got baited again, that's a real place in Wales 🤣🤣🤣

good video

The original settlers in the uk is us welsh we are the britons while the english are anglo saxons that came from Germanic tribes

There is a slightly different language between north and south. I speak with a north Wales dialect.

All of Ireland's cities were built by the vikings and most of them were later taking over by the normans and then saxons so the language never really got a chance to form a presence in them (Galway being an exception)

She said ond not and, which means but

17:00 Yeah, Celtic languages used to be spoken all over Europe and the Middle East until the roman empire ruined everything!

16:37 No, they both have Celtic ancestry (English has Germanic ancestry, its not native to Britain or related to the Celtic languages though)

YES, there is only one flavour of Icecream and that's vanila. Oh yeah, the language stuff was good too.

You'll find that Welsh, Cornish, and Bretagne are very closely linked.

This is North Welsh language which is completely different to South Welsh language

Shwmae - easy pronunciation " Sh-my" a short form of "Sut mae" Ble mae fy mwrawdyr a chwiorydd Cymreig ? Unrhwyn un yn gwybod y flog Cymreig yn y fideo ? Oedd y clip ar Cymru yn byr iawn oherwydd dyn ni'n rhy fccyin anhygoel ! Cymru am byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤

#Favour #FavourReacts Welsh is my first language!!! Brythonic Goidelic people were on the Island before the Anglo-Saxon, the Anglo-Saxon were from Northern Germany and Southern Denmark!! We all understand English as we are bilingual!! Welsh and Irish are languages that are older than English by about a 1000 years!! Ynys Môn/Anglesey, Gwynedd & Sir Penfro/Pembrokeshire are counties in Cymru/Wales not cities!! Welsh and Wales are from the Anglo-Saxon word 'Walha' meaning foreigner pre Anglo-Saxon the Welsh were pushed westward but were know as the Brythonic later becoming the Wales & Cornwall both with sister languages and people CYMRY (meaning: fellow countryman - Welsh people) and KERNOW (meaning: our people - Cornish people

I believe she said ond not and, "ond"is "but".

When that narrator said Llanfairpwllgwyngogerychwerndronwyllllantisiliogogogooch he was NOT baiting you. It is a REAL place - you will find it on Anglesey - just over the Menai Bridge. It is rather lovelhy market town worth vistitng if you are ever over this side of the Pond.