Pritenic

Pritenic is a proposedreconstructedCeltic language (or a branch of languages), thought to be spoken by Picts and Priteni in Britain during late Iron Age. It was a P-Celtic language and the ancestor of Pictish, into which it evolved around 5th century AD. The term was originally proposed in 1955 by linguist Kenneth H. Jackson to describe a hypothetical Roman-era (1st to 5th centuries) predecessor to the Pictish language, diverging from Brythonic in 75-100 AD.