Cumbricn.
/ˈkʌmbrɪk/ The former Celtic language of Cumbria. Also attributive or as adj.
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Cumbric1953
1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. i. i. 6 We shall occasionally employ Primitive Cumbric (Pr. Cum.) for the Brittonic dialect of Cumberland, Westmorland, northern Lancashire, and south-west Scotland.
1954 K. H. Jackson in N. K. Chadwick Stud. Early Brit. Hist. 67 By Western British I mean the ancestor of Welsh and probably of the Celtic language of Cumbria, called Cumbric here, which seems to have agreed with Welsh in the main.
1967 Peeblesshire (Royal Comm. Anc. Monuments Scotland) I. 3 The inhabitants..were responsible for the Brittonic or ‘Cumbric’ place-names of the region.
1970 B. M. H. Strang Hist. Eng. v. 283 The far north-west was brought under English rule in 1092, but it would be foolish to assume that all use of Cumbric immediately ceased.
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