Editing Welsh language (section)

===Old Welsh===
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The next main period is [[Old Welsh]] ({{lang|cy|Hen Gymraeg}}, 9th to 11th centuries); [[poetry]] from both Wales and [[Scotland]] has been preserved in this form of the language. As [[Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain|Germanic]] and [[Gaels|Gaelic]] colonisation of Britain proceeded, the Brittonic speakers in Wales were split off from those in northern England, speaking Cumbric, and those in the southwest, speaking what would become [[Cornish language|Cornish]], so the languages diverged. Both the works of [[Aneirin]] ({{lang|cy|Canu Aneirin}}, {{circa|600}}) and the ''[[Book of Taliesin]]'' ({{Lang|cy|Canu Taliesin}}) were written during this era.