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The '''Britons''' ([[Linguistic reconstruction|*]]''Pritanī'', {{lang-la|Britanni}}), also known as '''Celtic Britons'''<ref>{{cite book |author1=Graham Webster. |author1-link=Graham Webster (archaeologist) |editor1-last=Green |editor1-first=Miranda |editor1-link=Miranda Aldhouse-Green |title=The Celtic World |date=1996 |publisher=Routledge |page=623 |chapter=The Celtic Britons under Rome}}</ref> or '''Ancient Britons''', were an [[Indigenous people|indigenous]] [[Celts|Celtic people]]<ref name="Koch Britons">{{cite book |last1=Koch |first1=John |author1-link=John T. Koch |title=Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia |date=2006 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |pages=291–292}}</ref> who inhabited [[Great Britain]] from at least the [[British Iron Age]] until the [[High Middle Ages]], at which point they diverged into the [[Welsh people|Welsh]], [[Cornish people|Cornish]], and [[Bretons]] (among others).<ref name="Koch Britons"/> They spoke [[Common Brittonic]], the ancestor of the modern [[Brittonic languages]].<ref name="Koch Britons"/>