Its people, like those of most of Britain, spoke a Celtic language, Brythonic, the language which would eventually evolve into Welsh. In the first century the region had at least five tribal ...

The evidence suggests that by the first century AD, the language spoken in Wales - and throughout southern Britain - was Brythonic, a Celtic language closely related to the Gaulish of Gaul.

The evidence suggests that by the first century AD, the language spoken in Wales - and throughout southern Britain - was Brythonic, a Celtic language closely related to the Gaulish of Gaul.