Where is Breton?

Breton

Origin of Breton

● is a Celtic language insular British branch, like Welsh, with which it is closely related. Throughout its history it has been influenced by the French,so that part of the lexicon comes from this romance language.

● Breton is spoken mainly in western Britain, but is trying to retrieve or deploy throughout the country, where traditionally they talked for centuries.

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History

● The development of Breton can be divided into four stages:

● Primitive Breton (500-600 AD . ); at this point comes from the old Brythonic and is characterized by the loss of the final syllable .

● Old Breton (600-1000) ; dialectal difference between the southeast and northwest appears .

● Middle Breton (1000-1600) ; takes lot of borrowings from French .

● Modern Breton ( 1600 to today ); the vannetés differs as separate dialect .

Breton details

● It has 4 different dialects: Tregorrois, Vannetais, Cornouaillais and Léonard.

● Breton is spoken by 200,000 people, but in the last ten years has lost 80% of its speakers.

● 71% of the speakers have more than 60 years and the transmission from parents to children is very weak 3%

● 9500 children are learning breton in schools and 3500 adults are studying in courses.

Grammar

● Although Breton is the only Celtic language in continental Europe, has kept the hallmarks of her sisters in the British Isles, as the order of the sentence is a verb, subject and predicate, but not rigidly.

● The pronouns are:

Important

To write the Roman alphabet is used

with the exception of the letters / q / y /

x /./.

SpellingThere are two systems: the

Zedacheg and

University

Spellingg

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