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France Bleu Breizh Izel, also known as ici Lower Brittany and ici Breizh Izel, is a public service generalist radio station located in Lower Brittany, where Breton is traditionally spoken. The station broadcasts in Finistère , parts of western Côtes-d'Armor and western Morbihan .
However, the French word "bas" is often understood as carrying negative connotations, implying "inferior in status". The Breton name of Lower Brittany, "Breizh Izel", is used in many Breton songs sung in French of the 19th and 20th centuries, perhaps because the Breton word "Izel" has no such negative connotations.
Breizh [bʁɛjs, bʁɛχ] Llydaw: Breten Vian an Bhriotáin [ənˠ ˈvʲɾʲit̪ˠaːnʲ] a' Bhreatainn Bheag [ə ˈvɾʲɛht̪əɲ ˈvek] yn Vritaan Cornwall: Kernev-Veur [ˈkɛʁnev ˈvøːr] Cernyw: Kernow Corn na Breataine [ˈkoːɾˠn̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈbʲɾʲat̪ˠənʲə] a' Chòrn [ə ˈxoːrˠn̪ˠ] yn Chorn Ireland: Iwerzhon [iˈwɛʁzɔ̃n]
Breton is spoken in Lower Brittany (Breton: Breizh-Izel), roughly to the west of a line linking Plouha (west of Saint-Brieuc) and La Roche-Bernard (east of Vannes).It comes from a Brittonic language community that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica (present-day Brittany) and had even established a toehold in Galicia (in present-day Spain).
Brittany (French: Bretagne ⓘ; Breton: Breizh; Gallo: Bertaèyn [bəʁtaɛɲ]) is the westernmost region of Metropolitan France. It covers about four fifths of the territory of the historic province of Brittany. It is one of two regions in Metropolitan France that do not contain any landlocked departments, the other being Corsica.
Goursez Vreizh (officially Breudeuriezh Drouized, Barzhed hag Ovizion Breizh) is the national gorsedd of Brittany ("Breizh" in Breton). It often has delegates from the Welsh gorsedd and Gorsedh Kernow in Cornwall. The Breton organisation is itself based on the Welsh-based Gorsedd, which was founded by Iolo Morganwg in 1792.
Breiz Atao (also Breizh Atao) (in Breton Brittany For Ever cf. Breizh atav), was a Breton nationalist journal in the mid-twentieth century.It was written in French, and has always been considered as a French nationalist journal by the non-francized Bretons.
Breton Liberty (Breton: Frankiz Breizh, French: Liberté Bretagne) was a leftist national liberation movement in Brittany, France. It split off from the Breton Democratic Union, though the two parties' political stances were similar. Breton Liberty frequently worked within the Régions et Peuples Solidaires federation.