Introduction to the Cumbric Revival - The Dragon's Voice!

The Cumbric Revival is all about the revival of Cumbric, the native language of The Old North (Yr Hen Gogledd, in Cumbric), which is around the top third of England and the top third of Scotland.

Neither Scots Gaelic or English are native to this region, which includes Endinburgh (Din Eidyn, in Cumbric), and Glasgow (which is a Cumbric word).

Goodness gracious me, I've just spotted a spelling error in the video, the spelling 'Goddodin' should be Gododdin!

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Education

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• Cumbric
• Cwmbraic
• Yr Hen Gogledd
• The Old North
• Kingdom of Rheged
• Strathclyde
• Cumbria
• Cumberland
• king Arthur
• Cymry
• Cymraeg

[Ealasaid17]

I'm looking for the dialects of my English forefathers and I'm wondering where (in modern England ) would Cumbric been spoken?

[cumbricrevival]

By large, Cumbric was spoken in the south of Scotland and the north of England, the latter so far down as the Mersey (i.e. draw a line across the north of England through Liverpool and upwards ... but it was also spoken a wee bit southwards of that line as well)

[dmsparr]

I'm from the South of Britain, so I'm still looking for my native language, good luck with your book for the northern peoples.

[cumbricrevival]

Thanks!

By all accounts the peoples all over Britain could understand each other, so your native language is going to be some sort of dialect of Welsh anyway.

As all Welsh-speakers are generally bilingual in their own Welsh dialects, you might as well get a head-start by starting to learn Welsh (from Wales), Kernic (from Cornwall), or Cumbric (from The Old North), now!

You can pick the closest (Welsh or Kernic) or the sexiest (Cumbric)!

Best wishes, once you start its a one-way train ride!

[Brythonek]

The Ancient Britons will rise again! As was prophesied by Merlin! :=) Good to see that the tribes are still there, albeit weakened and dispersed, but we are still there!!! KERNOW HAG KEMBRY HAG BRETEN VYGHAN BYS VYKKEN!

[cumbricrevival]

Its fabulous to see you writing in Kernewek, and although I don't yet understand it, I'm starting to see patterns!

What you say about the ancient Britons is of course true, I don't even see the ancient Britons and Britons being two different groups, we Britons are merely the descendants of our ancient forebears, so when I use the word 'ancient' with the word 'Britons', I always use a lower case "a" (unless at start of sentence), they are ancient Britons, not Ancient Britons ~ a clever subtlety!

[stecymru14]

Sadly, Cumbric is merely a slight variant of Old Welsh (hencimraic). If Cumbric is to be revived, learn some Old Welsh.

If we're reviving Cumbric, shouldn't we be reviving Old Devonian (Dewnansek Koth) too?

[annbretagne]

Fascinating stuff. Good luck!

[annbretagne]

Fascinating stuff. I didn't realise there were so many Celtic language enthusiasts out there. I'd never made the connection between Cumbria/Cumbric/Cwmru/Cambrian­. Maybe the similarities various people have made comments about confirm a common ancestral language?? I live in Brittany, and the poor old Bretons are struggling with French chauvinism, although there is one article in Breton (with glossary) in a monthly mag here. Keep up the struggle!

[Brythonek]

Skryf dhym in Gumbrek! :)