Pictish is a term used for the extinct language or languages thought to have been spoken by the Picts, the people of northern and central Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. The idea that a distinct Pictish language was perceived at some point is only attested clearly in Bede's early 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, but there isn't enough evidence to test either the language's sprachraum or its coherency as a dialect continuum. What evidence there's of the language is limited… (More on Pictish)