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The answer PICTISH has 2 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of pictish in various dictionaries:
The language of the Picts, of uncertain affiliation, known chiefly from place names and extinct by the tenth century.
PICTISH - Pictish is the extinct language, or dialect, spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from the late Iron Age to the Early Mid...
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| Like an old tribesman chosen, say, by his organisation |
| Old language of Scotland |
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| Jan 27 2009 The Times - Cryptic |
| Jun 8 2007 Wall Street Journal |
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Pictish is the extinct language, or dialect, spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from the late Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages. There is virtually no direct attestation of Pictish, short of a limited number of geographical and personal names found on monuments and the contemporary records in the area controlled by the Kingdom of the Picts. Such evidence, however, points to the language being closely related to the Brittonic language spoken prior to Anglo-Saxon settlement in what is now southern Scotland, England and Wales. A minority view held by a few scholars claims that Pictish was at least partially non-Indo-European or that a non-Indo-European and Brittonic language coexisted. * Pictish was replaced by Gaelic in the latter centuries of the Pictish period. During the reign of Caustantín mac Áeda (900943), outsiders began to refer to the region as the kingdom of Alba rather than the kingdom of the Picts. However, though the Pictish language did not disap |