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Southwestern Brittonic languages

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use the term Southwest British (i.e. Southwest Brittonic) to describe the language when "Old Cornish" and "Old Breton" were indistinguishable and only separated by geography rather than linguistically.
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Other significant differences are found in Welsh innovations in which Southwestern Brittonic did not participate, such as the development of the
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Southwestern Brittonic is distinguished from Welsh by sound changes including:
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The earliest stage of the languages, Primitive Cornish/Breton, is
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in an old final syllable (in Welsh it diphthongized to
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in a pretonic syllable (in Welsh there was no raising)
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Index

Southwestern Brythonic languages
Brittany
Cornwall
Linguistic classification
Indo-European
Celtic
Insular Celtic
Brittonic
Breton
Cornish
Glottolog
sout3176
Breton
Cornish
Brittonic
Celtic
South West England
Brittany
Early Middle Ages
Cornish
Breton
Common Brittonic
Britain
Welsh
Cumbric
Wales
Hen Ogledd
Northern England
Scottish Lowlands
unattested

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