According to legend, sometime in the 5th century, a king of the Celtic Britons named Vordogern,

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dot com slash masterclass. The island of Great Britain was originally an island

that was inhabited by Celtic peoples. It was later occupied by Rome and

became a Roman province. Yet the people who live on the island didn't end up speaking a Celtic or romance language.

They ended up speaking a language that belonged to the Germanic family of languages.

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