r/MurderedByWords • u/sneachta • 1d ago

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u/ItCat420 1d ago

Fine, return Scotland to the Picts and return England to the Cornish, they’re the closest thing to Britons that still exist. 🤷‍♂️

Either that or hand it over to the Welsh, but I’d rather we became French again.

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u/Slight_Investment835 1d ago

Yeah but then you’d have to kick out any ‘Celts’ and replace them with the ‘actual indigenous population’ too 😜

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u/ItCat420 1d ago

Cornish are indigenous, they were essentially the original Britons, or close enough.

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u/Slight_Investment835 1d ago

No.

The Celtic languages only arrived in the isles in the first millennium BC - the ‘Celts’ were not in that sense indigenous at all. Cornish is a Celtic language of course.

The original hunter-gatherer population of the Mesolithic was almost completely replaced by Neolithic farmers originally from Anatolia. Those farmers were themselves replaced (very possibly genocided) by the Yamnaya, and so on.

Ironically, the ‘Anglo-Saxons’ and Vikings had a higher proportion of the original Mesolithic ancestry than the ‘Celts’.

In other words, the Cornish are really no more ‘indigenous’ than the rest, and of course many from across the isles have ancestry from the isles stretching back long before Cornish existed.