Cumbric leid

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Cumbric wis a Brythonic Cetlic leid spoken in the Hen Ogledd or "Auld North", that is nou Northren Ingland an soothren Lawland Scotland; the area lang syne kent as Cumbrie (Cumbric: *kəmbrü) in the Early Middle Ages.[1]Cumbric is thocht tae hae been gey siccan-like til Auld Welsh; baith leids aiblins belanged til a common west Brythonic branch. Evidence frae place names suggests Cumbric speakers micht hae flittit it intae ither pairts o Northren Ingland frae the core areas farther north,[2] an the leid micht hae been spoken as far sooth as the Yorkshire Dales. Maist linguists believe that it becam extinct in the 12t century, efter the incorporation o the semi-independent Kinrick o Strathclyde intae the Kinrick o Scotland.

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