The Picts inhabited most of Scotland in the first millennium of the Common Era. While we know from such evidence as place names (Nicolaisen 1972, 1996) that they spoke a Brythonic Celtic language, aside from these place names, the king lists (see Cummins 1995), and a handful of ogham inscriptions that have so-far eluded decoding (but see Cummins 1999:60-68), nothing else is known of their language