Editing Causantín mac Cináeda (section)

== Languages and names ==
[[File:Causantín mac Cináeda (Lat. 4126, folio 29v).jpg|thumb|The king's name in the [[Chronicle of the Kings of Alba]], ''Constantin''[us]'' f''[ilius]'' Kinet'']]

Writing a century before Causantín was born, [[Bede]] recorded five languages in Britain. [[Latin]], the common language of the church; [[Old English]], the language of the Angles and Saxons; [[Irish language|Irish]], spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland; [[Celtic Britons|Brythonic]], ancestor of the 
[[Welsh language]], spoken in large parts of western Britain; and [[Pictish]], spoken in [[northern Britain]]. By the ninth century a sixth language, [[Old Norse]], had arrived with the Vikings.