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===Cumbric=== {{main|Cumbric}} * Early 10th century β The grip from Northumbrian{{clarify|date=June 2021}} on the former territory of [[Rheged]] was that of Britons of Strathcylde reoccupied southwest Scotland and northwest England as far south as Derwent and Penrith.<ref name="price">{{Cite book|title=Languages in Britain and Ireland|last=Price|first=G|publisher=Blackwell|year=2000|location=Oxford|pages=125}}</ref> which was held until Carlisle retaken by Scots in 1136<ref name="wales" /> * Cumbric perhaps survived until it faded in the early 12th century throughout Cumbria.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography|last=Jackson|first=Peter|publisher=Unwin Hyman|year=1989|location=London|pages=72}}</ref> * Cumbric score β counting sheep β Welsh correspondence Welsh ("un, dau, tri") β Cumberland ("yan, tyan, tethera") β Westmorland ("yan, than, teddera") β Lancashire ("yan, taen, tedderte") β West Yorkshire ("yain, tain, eddero")<ref name="price" /> β survived 7β8 centuries after the language itself had died β Brittonic origin * Not one single complete phrase in Cumbric survives, evidence to suggest strong literary tradition, probably oral, some of this early material is known in a Welsh version{{clarify|date=June 2021}}<ref name="price" />
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