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1.) '''Celtic Languages''':
 
1.) '''Celtic Languages''':
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*a.) '''Brittonic''', spoken in most areas of Britain and in Armorica as well.
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=a.) '''Brittonic''', spoken in most areas of Britain and in Armorica as well.
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**i.) '''Pictish'''. Spoken in many areas north of the Wall. In my campaign, I'm adhering to the theory that it was a branch of the Brittonic language. Picts probably have a funny accent and fewer Latin loan-words, but it's a dialect of Brittonic (mutually intelligible, no mechanical penalty other than an accent betraying origin).
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==i.) '''Pictish'''. Spoken in many areas north of the Wall. In my campaign, I'm adhering to the theory that it was a branch of the Brittonic language. Picts probably have a funny accent and fewer Latin loan-words, but it's a dialect of Brittonic (mutually intelligible, no mechanical penalty other than an accent betraying origin).
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*b.) '''Hibernian''' (Goidelic, aka Tongue of the Scotti). This is the language spoken in Hibernia. Also spoken in some places with a degree of Hibernian settlement (Cambria) and spoken widely in Western Caledonia.
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=b.) '''Hibernian''' (Goidelic, aka Tongue of the Scotti). This is the language spoken in Hibernia. Also spoken in some places with a degree of Hibernian settlement (Cambria) and spoken widely in
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*c.) '''Gaulish''' (also includes Galatian). Spoken across the Narrow Sea in Gaul (with the exception noted above that Brittonic is predominant in Armorica). It is a language somewhat on the decline.
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Western Caledonia.
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*'''NOTE:''' In my campaign, speakers of any of the separate Celtic languages can make themselves understood to each other in very simple terms via the time-honored method of speaking more loudly and pointing. If a speaker of one Celtic language is eavesdropping upon someone speaking in another Celtic language, he has a good chance of understanding what is being said, but also a small chance of a humorous and/or deadly misunderstanding. I'd use rules from RQ3 for this.
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=c.) '''Gaulish''' (also includes Galatian). Spoken across the Narrow Sea in Gaul (with the exception noted above that Brittonic is predominant in Armorica). It is a language somewhat on the decline.
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='''NOTE:''' In my campaign, speakers of any of the separate Celtic languages can make themselves understood to each other in very simple terms via the time-honored method of speaking more
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loudly and pointing. If a speaker of one Celtic language is eavesdropping upon someone speaking in another Celtic language, he has a good chance of understanding what is being said, but also
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a small chance of a humorous and/or deadly misunderstanding. I'd use rules from RQ3 for this.
  
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2.) '''Latin''': spoken widely throughout the former lands of the Western Roman Empire. In Britain, still spoken as a native/first tongue by some in major (in relative terms) urban centers or the lands in the
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2.) '''Latin:''' spoken widely throughout the former lands of the Western Roman Empire. In Britain, still spoken as a native/first tongue by some in major (in relative terms) urban centers or the lands in the
 
southeast. Also widely spoken by priests, by men whose fathers or grandfathers were in Roman service (or who served themselves), and by merchants. In areas of southern Britain that were never
 
southeast. Also widely spoken by priests, by men whose fathers or grandfathers were in Roman service (or who served themselves), and by merchants. In areas of southern Britain that were never
 
heavily Romanized such as the Cambrian hill country or the land of the Dumnonii, it is possible that chief and his sons might speak Latin, even if no one else in the settlement does.
 
heavily Romanized such as the Cambrian hill country or the land of the Dumnonii, it is possible that chief and his sons might speak Latin, even if no one else in the settlement does.

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