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|colspan="2" bgcolor="#FF6666" align="center" |'''Pictish'''
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|valign="top"|Spoken in:
||Scotland
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|valign="top"|Timeline/Universe:
||[[League of Lost Languages]]
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|valign="top"|Total speakers:
||ca. 500
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|valign="top"|Genealogical classification:
||[[Coric]]<br>
&nbsp;'''Pictish'''
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|valign="top"|Basic word order:
||VSO
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|valign="top"|Morphological type:
||fusional
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|valign="top"|Morphosyntactic alignment:
||ergative
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|colspan="2" bgcolor="#FF6666" align="center" |'''Created by:'''
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||[[User:WeepingElf|Jörg Rhiemeier]]||2006-
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'''Pictish''' is the only surviving [[Coric]] language; it is spoken by a few extended families in the eastern Scottish highlands.
'''Pictish''' is the term used for the language that was spoken in what is now northern Scotland before the Scots immigrated in the 5th century.  There is a small number of unintelligible Ogham inscriptions from the area; otherwise, the language is known only from geographical and personal names.


[[Category:Coric]]
It has long been held that the language was non-Indo-European, but today, most scholars assume that it was Celtic.
 
{{Natlangs}}

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Pictish is the term used for the language that was spoken in what is now northern Scotland before the Scots immigrated in the 5th century. There is a small number of unintelligible Ogham inscriptions from the area; otherwise, the language is known only from geographical and personal names.

It has long been held that the language was non-Indo-European, but today, most scholars assume that it was Celtic.

This article is one of quite a few pages about Natlangs.

Indo-european natlangs:

Balto-Slavic Natlangs: Czech * Russian
Celtic Natlangs: Revived Middle Cornish * Pictish
Germanic Natlangs:
North Germanic Natlangs: Norwegian
West Germanic Natlangs: Anglo-Saxon * Dutch * English (Old English * Middle English * Modern English * Scots) * German (High German * Low German)
Indo-Iranian Natlangs: Pahlavi
Italic Natlangs: French * Italian * Latin * Spanish
Debated: Cimmerian

Uralic Natlangs: Finnish * Khanty * Mansi * Mordvinic * Proto-Uralic
Altaic (controversial): Japanese
Sino-Tibetan Natlangs:
Uto-Aztecan Natlangs: Nahuatl

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Isolate Natlangs: Basque * *
Hypothetical/debated Natlangs and Natlang families: Danubian * Europic (obsolete)