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{{dablink|This article is about the ancient ethnic groups of [[Great Britain]]. For the modern term, see [[Briton]]}}
'''Brython''' and '''Brythonic''' are terms which refer to [[Indigenous peoples of Europe|indigenous]], pre-[[Ancient Rome|Roman]], [[Celt]]ic speaking inhabitants of most of the island of [[Great Britain]], and their [[culture]]s and [[language]]s, the [[Brythonic languages]]. These [[ethnic group]]s are also referred to as the '''British tribes''', the '''ancient Britons''', '''ethnic Britons''', or simply '''Britons'''. These terms specifically refer to the culture of speakers of the [[P-Celtic]] branch of the [[Celtic languages]] as opposed to speakers of [[Q-Celtic]], who are usually referred to as [[Gaels]] or [[Goidelic]] Celts.

It is not known (and perhaps unknowable) whether the whole population of Great Britain was brythonic. A number of scholars argue that the unknown language of the [[Picts]] was ''P-Celtic'', but by sub-Roman times the Picts were distinguished as a separate group, as were the ''Gaels'' of [[Dál Riata]]. The terms "Brython" and "Briton" are traditionally used to mean inhabitants of ancient Britain excluding the Picts, because other cultural features of the Picts, for example their [[sculptu(contracted; show full)
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