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Revision as of 03:39, 2 March 2006

Pictish
Spoken in: Scotland
Timeline/Universe: League of Lost Languages
Total speakers: ca. 500
Genealogical classification: Afro-Asiatic

 Pictic
  Pictish

Basic word order: VSO
Morphological type: fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment: ergative
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier 2006-

Pictish is the only surviving Pictic language; it is spoken by a few extended families in the eastern Scottish highlands.