Devonian language
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The Devonian language is an extinct Brythonic dialect once spoken in Devon, England. The language was closely related to Cornish and Welsh. It may have been a dialect of Cornish rather than a separate language.
A form of Celtic language is believed to have survived in parts of Devon until the 14th century. Then President of the Devonshire Association, Sir Henry Duke, said in 1922 that "various writers have made (assertions) of the continuance of British occupancy and of the British tongue in South and West Devon to a time well within the reigns of the Plantagenets. Risdon, for example, says that the Celtic tongue was spoken throughout the South Hams in Edward the First's time".
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