The History of the British Isles

The predominant population of the british isles arrived within a few millennia of the last ice age and have been there ever since. They almost certainly spoke somge original language, of which we have no trace at all. At some points, much later on, people from the west, speaking a celtic tongue, would have been trading up and down the west s of europe. The lingua franke appears to be one of the languages emerging out of iberia, out of spain and portugal. Theory is that it infiltrated western france, leaving traces in brittany now, and the west side of the bribish isles at the same time.