Hi Piotr, you wrote:
Pictish, according to current research, was a variety
> of
> Brittonic Celtic.
Didn't Pictish have features found in Gaulish but not Brittonic?
Could it have been a 3rd Brythonic dialect, along with Brittonic and
Gaulish, but have been closer to Gaulish? This would explain why it was
regarded as a seperated dialect from British and Gaelic in Medieval
chronicles. Also, I still think that it was a possibility that the
Gaulish similarities (though this is not proven) could have been because
there may have been a relation between the Picts and the Pictones in W
Gaul, who, though originally Aquitanian, may have later acquired Gaulish
speech due to their geographical position. In fact, I think it's
possible that this way Pictish was a Gaulsih superstrate over an
Auquitanian substrate. Their Aquatanian origins would explain maybe
Gerald of Wales referance to Basclenses settling in Ireland in a similar
account of the Picts settlement in Alba mentioned by other Medieval
writers.
However, this is all just speculation on my part, I'm just pointing these
out as possibilities,
-Michael
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