Revitalised Cumbric

The Language of the Old North  ·  Revitalised for Today

Cumbric was the Brittonic tongue of Cumbria, Strathclyde, and the Pennine uplands — the language of Rheged, the Gododdin, and the kingdoms of the Old North. It fell silent around the twelfth century, but its traces survive in place-names, counting rhymes, and the very accent of northern England. This site presents Revitalised Cumbric: a structured, evidence-based recovery of that language, grounded in the NBTRF framework and the shared heritage of the Brittonic family.

Stage 1 Foundation: "I can speak to someone"

Equip yourself with the full grammatical and lexical foundation — verbs, pronouns, numbers, greetings — required to hold a first conversation in Revitalised Cumbric.

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Pronouns
Subject, object, and possessive pronouns — the words for I, you, he, she, we, they, me, my, and more.
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To Be — Present
I am, you are, he is — the full present tense of the Cumbric verb "to be".
§2 · 6 rows
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To Be — Past
I was, you were, he was — the past tense of "to be".
§3 · 6 rows
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To Be — Future
I will be, you will be — the future tense of "to be".
§4 · 6 rows
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To Be — Perfect & Conditional
I have been, I would be — the perfect and conditional forms.
§5 · 12 rows
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To Have — All Tenses
I have, I had, I will have — the full paradigm of "to have" across all tenses.
§6 · 18 rows
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Modal Verbs
Can, must, should, will, would, may, might, shall — the modal auxiliary verbs.
§7 · 21 rows
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Action Verbs — Go / Come / Do
Present tense of go, come, and do — the three most essential action verbs.
§8 · 18 rows
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Action Verbs — Take / Give / See / Know / Want / Need
Present tense of six essential everyday verbs.
§9 · 18 rows
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Action Verbs — Past, Future & Perfect
The same action verbs extended into past, future, and perfect tenses.
§10 · 27 rows
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Adjectives — Colours
Red, blue, green, yellow, black, white — the core colour vocabulary.
§11 · 10 rows
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Adjectives — Size & Feelings
Big, small, tall, long, wide, narrow — and happy, sad, tired, hungry.
§12 · 17 rows
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Prepositions
In, on, at, to, from, with, without, before, after, under, over, behind.
§13 · 13 rows
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Conjunctions
And, or, but, because, if, when, although, so, that — the connective words.
§14 · 12 rows
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Numbers — 0 to 20
Zero to twenty — including the attested yan-tan-tethera forms for Revitalised Cumbric.
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Numbers — Tens, Hundreds & Thousands
30, 40, 50 up to one million — the vigesimal system of the Brittonic languages.
§16 · 10 rows
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Ordinal Numbers
First, second, third, fourth, fifth, tenth, twentieth.
§17 · 7 rows
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Days of the Week
Monday through Sunday in Revitalised Cumbric and its Brittonic kin.
§18 · 7 rows
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Months & Seasons
January through December, and spring, summer, autumn, winter.
§19 · 16 rows
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Telling the Time
O'clock, half past, quarter to — how to express the time of day.
§20 · 6 rows
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Dates & Temporal Words
Today, yesterday, tomorrow, this year, last week, next month.
§21 · 8 rows
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Greetings
Hello, good morning, good evening, goodbye, how are you?
§22 · 11 rows
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Introductions
My name is, I am from, I am n years old — the phrases of first meeting.
§23 · 8 rows
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Polite Expressions
Thank you, please, excuse me, yes, no, sorry — the essentials of courtesy.
§24 · 7 rows
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Stage 2 Tourist: "I can function as a visitor"

Survival skills for a traveller — food, transport, accommodation, shopping, health, and small talk.

Stage 3 Advanced: "Towards full fluency"

Everything beyond tourist level — relationships, work, culture, body, nature, media, and advanced grammatical structures.