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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 &#x(contracted; show full)
The word ''Brython'' was borrowed from the [[Welsh language]] to differentiate between this purely [[ethno-linguistic]] meaning and the word ''[[Briton]]''.  It comes from the terms ''Bruthin'' or ''[[Cruithne (people)|Priteni]]'', which were used in classical times in geographer's texts{{Fact|date=June 2007}} incorporating fragments of the travel writings of the [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[Pytheas]] around 
[[320 BC]] which describe the peoples of the [[British isles]], including [[Ireland]], as the Πρεττανοί (''Prettanoi'') .<ref name=snyder>{{cite book
  | last = Snyder
  | first = Christopher A.
  | title = The Britons
  | publisher = [[Blackwell Publishing]]
  | date = 2003
  | id = ISBN 0-631-22260-X }}</ref><ref name=ohi>{{cite book
  | last = Foster (editor)
  | first = R F
  | authorlink = 
  | coauthors = Donnchadh O Corrain, Professor of Irish History at University College Cork: Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland
  | title = The Oxford History of Ireland
  | publisher = Oxford University Press
  | date = [[1 November]] [[2001]]
  | location = 
  | url = 
  | doi = 
  | id = ISBN 0-19-280202-X }}</ref> The term  derived from "[[Celtic languages]]"{{Fact|date=June 2007}} and is likely to have reached Pytheas from the [[Gaul]]s<ref name=ohi/> who may have used it as their term for the inhabitants of the islands.<ref>[http://www.celticgrounds.com/chapters/encyclopedia/p.html Encyclopedia of the Celts]: Pretani</ref> The Romans called the inhabitants of Gaul (modern [[France]]) ''Galli'' or ''Celtae''. The latter term came from the [[Ancient Greek]] name [[Κελτοί]] (''Keltoi'') for a central European people, and [[17th century]] antiquarians who found language connections developed the idea of a race of [[Celt]]s inhabiting the area, but this term was not used by the Greeks or Romans for the inhabitants of Britain or Ireland.<ref>[http://www.walespast.com/article.shtml?id=36 The earliest Celts in Europe | WalesPast]</ref> [[Etymologicum Genuinum]] and [[Parthenius of Nicaea|Parthenius]]<ref>Patrhenius, ''Love Stories 2, 30'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Parthenius2.html#30]</ref> mention o(contracted; show full)
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[[fr:Bretons insulaires]]
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[[it:Britanni]]
[[lt:Britai (keltai)]]
[[ru:Бритты]]