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The living Brythonic languages are Breton, Welsh, and Cornish; also notable are Cumbric (now extinct), Ivernic (also extinct) and probably the extinct Pictish (although the late Kenneth H. Jackson argued during the 1950s, from some of the few remaining examples of Pictish that Pictish was a non- Indo-European language, the majority of modern Pictish scholars do not agree). Once, Brythonic languages encompassed most of Great Britain and Ireland – though in Ireland it was replaced with Goidelic when Gaels invaded sometime between 500 and 100 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 105 BC 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC 100 BC 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC 96 BC 95 BC Events Tigranes II of Armenia is placed on Arme, but they were driven to the fringes of Britain by the invasions of the AnglesAngles (German: Angeln Old English: Englas Latin: noun Anguls verb Anglii were a Germanic people, from Schleswig an area which was wholly the southern part of Denmark and protected from German conquest by the Danevirke until the 19th century to East Angli, SaxonThis article is about the Saxons, a Germanic people. For other uses of the term, see Saxon (disambiguation). The Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and the eastern Netherlands (but not in the areas, and JutesThe Jutes were a Germanic people who are believed to have originated in Jylland ( Jutland) in modern Denmark and part of the Frisian coast. The Jutes, along with the Angles, Saxons and Frisians, were amongst the Germanic peoples who sailed across the Nort which brought EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil to Britain. Brythonic languages then disappeared from ScotlandScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p after Irish colonists brought a Goidelic language with them from their home island.