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Latin would be the earliest British language however you must remember that what we now know as Britain has not always been British (the Romans used to own it).

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The Romans conquered Britain between AD 43 until ca. AD 410 and during this period introduced Latin. However Britain has a culture going back thousands of years before the Roman occupation (during which period Stone Henge was built) - DNA analysis has shown that modern humans arrived in Britain at least 25,000 years ago.

These ancient British people had a language and culture of their own but sadly none of the pre-Roman inhabitants of Britain have any known, surviving, written language. Generically they are called Celts and there is a small amount of linguistic evidence of Celtic language that comes down to us from British river and hill names.

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