Who are the British really?

The following is a comment left on our “British or English?” post written by someone from Wales. We would welcome your thoughts.

“Shwmae (hello) im goin to tell it straight and how it is! i add a little history lesson to clear up how the term British misleads people all over.
 
A Briton or British was the name given to the people who occupied the island of Brittania as the romans called it. They were a celtic people, today living in what is now Wales. They were called the Brythonic Celts and spoke a brittonic, celtic language of what is now Cymraeg(Welsh) and it was spoken all over britain including England long before English people came to Britain, because as we know English people come from the Germanic tribes the Angle, saxons and jutes and are not the indigeonus people of Britain, the Welsh are!!
 
Now it makes me angry when i hear an English person call themselves British! They are not, they speak no Britonnic language i.e Welsh, they are not decendants of the Brythonic/British Celts so how can the english call themselves british? They are Anglo Saxons who speak a western frisian language! The only ones who can really call themselves British are the Welsh people, as the saying goes – “The welsh are the last of the ‘TRUE’ Britons“And thats a fact of history, personally myself, i call myself welsh or a Briton!
Diolch yn Fawr!”
 
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