The language associated with the Iron Age in Britain is which?

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The language associated with the Iron Age in Britain is which?

In the Iron Age, people in Britain spoke Celtic languages—the insular Celtic family that would later give rise to Brittonic languages such as Welsh and Cornish. This era predates the Roman conquest, so Latin wasn’t the everyday language yet, and it certainly isn’t the language that would become English. English develops later from Anglo-Saxon speech after the Roman withdrawal, long after the Iron Age. So the language most closely associated with the Iron Age in Britain is Celtic.

In the Iron Age, people in Britain spoke Celtic languages—the insular Celtic family that would later give rise to Brittonic languages such as Welsh and Cornish. This era predates the Roman conquest, so Latin wasn’t the everyday language yet, and it certainly isn’t the language that would become English. English develops later from Anglo-Saxon speech after the Roman withdrawal, long after the Iron Age. So the language most closely associated with the Iron Age in Britain is Celtic.

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