Cumbric is a loose term used to describe the Brythonic language of Northern England, North Wales, and Much of Scotland. It survives today in the form of modern Welsh, although little remains of the language in England, other than bits of vocabulary and grammar which are preserved in place-names.
I do not claim to be writing down the exact language of Northern England, here I am using Middle Welsh and Old Welsh as a basis upon which to build an idea of what Cumbric sounded like before it became Welsh, and the later forms of language spoken across The Northern United Kingdom. The reason for using the older form of the language is because this form would have probably been largely understood across much of Northern Britain, later Cumbric probably was too diffrenciated to be so. Thus people who might use this work are a good way to understanding both modern Cumbric and Modern Welsh, and likewise speakers of Modern Welsh will find the language of their ancestry not too much of a challenge.

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I am interested in learning Welsh, but I have no previous Welsh exposure and I am English and do not live in Wales, so finding speakers would probably be tricky. I find Welsh a facinating language, yet how hard would you say it was for a native English speaker to become proficient in it, how would you say it compares to other European languages?

From the small amount of study I've done, while it is obviously very different to English, the sentence structure is quite similar and sentences are built in the same way. Would it be fair to say Welsh's complexity is no worse than French or German?

Thanks

The Celtic Languages are:

Welsh
Breton
Manx
Irish
Scottish
Cornish
Scottish is only spoken by 60,000 people though.
I just looked it up, Irish has 400,000 speakers. With 1,000,000 with limited Knowledge. Welsh has 750,000 speakers and 1,500,000 knowledgeable people.

I know all 3 languages are within 20 to 25% of each other of being the same language, but can speakers of one language understand the other 2? I've been told that this is true of Cornish and Breton, but what about welsh?

I am a native Welsh speaker and I often hear Irish complimenting us Welsh on how we preserved our language and what have you . Bt really doesn't Irish have more speakers than Welsh. The reason i say this is because around 1 600 000 people in Ireland said they could speak Irish to some extent. And only 750 000 in Wales said that they could speak read and write Welsh. I am confused. They say welsh is the most robust celtic language used by thousands but how is this if Irish has this many speakers?>

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go raibh math agat.