Cumbric revival

The Cumbric Revival is a project by a small group of enthusiasts to revive the obscure Cumbric language or Cwmbraic. The movement owes its origin to the efforts of Celtic language enthusiast and researcher Anthony Ap Anthony O Rheged. The unique portal has been set up as the result of Anthony ap Anthony o Rheged's rediscovery of Cumbric Manuscripts
In May 2009 the group launched a website "Cumbric Revival Community Network" and has been working on reconstructing and adapting the "forgotten" Brythonic language of Cumberland to a modern setting.
Language background
Cumbric is a Brythonic Celtic language, considered to be a dialect of Welsh, spoken in the Hen Ogledd ("Old North") in what is now northern England and southern Lowland Scotland, the area anciently referred to as Cumbria. Place name evidence suggests Cumbric speakers may have carried it into other parts of Northern England as migrants from its core area further north. It may also have been spoken as far south as the Yorkshire Dales. Most linguists believe that it became extinct in the 12th century, after the incorporation of the semi-independent kingdom of Strathclyde into the kingdom of Scotland.
Sample text in Cwmbraíc
Cwmbraíc yw'r eno'r yath P-Celtic a'r yin planth val Cwmrayc (Cymraeg), Cernewec, ac Brethonec (Brezhoneg). Cwmbraíc leidasa achraís yr Alban, Cleth y Laígre, ac y cleth parthow Canol y Laígre.
Yn Gwmbru, (ní Cwmbría) Saixnec yw'r yath, ac di'r pobl Regeth ynaí mil a flonothaídd o mser har mowav cifi'r yath brithonic a leidasa ema.
Inth a'r blaín thua 1000AC (Aith Crith) raith Cwmbraíc yr yath cwntav di Pobl Cleth y Laígre, Airer (yn Gwmru) ac Alba, a'r blaín Dwfithyath Saixnec, a gethoth yr yath cwntav.
Yn Alba gethoth Saixnec (a Scotec) yr yath cwntav tow, cweddin trozgethyath plaithol Geilic yr Icalddir yn Alba, a ddifothath y Geilic SiÄ¡r Galowei.
Nac owddnabon lower am Honath yr Yath, a'i rocirow yn bróaídd gonol, inth enow-laídd raí ni próf am niwvithow són yn yr yath, ar engraíth: Pen-y-Ghent (SiÄ¡r Gair-Efroc), Blaín Catharach (Bró'r Linaídd). Homa gei tha, aconis ar dorcanfoth yr orcwethow yr yath, onjenon/ongenon owchwil lower. Ynaínth lanithyath (0500AC) yn Gwmbraíc gennim rowon hefidth. Gobaithav bith y gozoth-blog hon rocarwanyath bechan, inth yin colonddith hefidth.

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