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The British people The Britons (sometimes Brythons or British) were the Celtic people living in Great Britain from the Iron Age through the Early Middle Ages. They spoke the Insular Celtic language known as British or Brythonic. They lived throughout Britain south of about the Firth of Forth; after the 5th century Britons also migrated to continental Europe, where they established the settlements of Brittany in France and the obscure Britonia in what is now Galicia, Spain. In current usage, Briton also refers to the modern, mainly English-speaking, inhabitants of the United Kingdom – the British people. 不列颠人，常被称为英国人，通常是指大不列颠岛上的原住民及其后代。 The Celts Celts (pronounced /kelts/ or /selts/, see names of the Celts; the most common academic usage is with a velar c, pronounced as k) is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the modern descendants of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture. Today, the term Celtic is generally used to describe the languages and respective cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany, also known as the Six Celtic Nations. These are the regions where four Celtic languages are still spoken to some extent as mother tongues: Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton plus two recent revivals, Cornish (one of the Brythonic languages) and Manx (one of the Goidelic languages). The Scottish people The Scottish people (Scots Gaelic: Albannach), or Scots, are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Celtic peoples the Picts, the Gaels, and the Brythons. In modern use, Scottish people or Scots is often used to refer to anyone born in, or with family origins in, Scotland. The Latin word Scotti originally applied to a particular, 5th century, Gaelic tribe that inhabited Ireland and later in history became confused with