<P> The Latin name in the early Roman Empire period was Britanni or Brittanni, following the Roman conquest in AD 43 . </P> <P> The Welsh word Brython was introduced into English usage by John Rhys in 1884 as a term unambiguously referring to the P - Celtic speakers of Great Britain, to complement Goidel; hence the adjective Brythonic referring to the group of languages . "Brittonic languages" is a more recent coinage (first attested 1923 according to the Oxford English Dictionary) intended to refer to the ancient Britons specifically . </P> <P> In English, the term "Briton" originally denoted the ancient Britons and their descendants, most particularly the Welsh, who were seen as heirs to the ancient British people . After the Acts of Union 1707, the terms British and Briton came to be applied to all inhabitants of the Kingdom of Great Britain and its empire . </P> <P> The Britons spoke an Insular Celtic language known as Common Brittonic . Brittonic was spoken throughout the island of Britain (in modern terms, England, Wales and Scotland), as well as offshore islands such as the Isle of Man, Scilly Isles, Orkneys, Hebrides and Shetlands . According to early mediaeval historical tradition, such as The Dream of Macsen Wledig, the post-Roman Celtic - speakers of Armorica were colonists from Britain, resulting in the Breton language, a language related to Welsh and identical to Cornish in the early period and still used today . Thus the area today is called Brittany (Br . Breizh, Fr . Bretagne, derived from Britannia). </P>

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