Breton Language

Description of Breton Language

1. Where is Breton?

2. Breton

3. 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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4. 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 .

5. 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.

6. 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:

7. Important
To write the Roman alphabet is used
with the exception of the letters / q / y /
x /./.
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8. Video Breton Speaker's