Middle Welsh

Middle Welsh
Middle Welsh
Kymraec
Native to	Wales
Era	Approached Modern Welsh by about the 15th century
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Insular Celtic Brittonic Middle Welsh; ; ; ;
Early forms	Common Brittonic Old Welsh ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wlm
Linguist List	wlm
Glottolog	midd1363

Middle Welsh (Welsh: Cymraeg Canol, Middle Welsh: Kymraec) is the label attached to the Welsh language of the 12th to 15th centuries, of which much more remains than for any earlier period. This form of Welsh developed directly from Old Welsh (Welsh: Hen Gymraeg).

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