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Breton is a Brittonic Celtic language in the Indo-European family, and its grammar has many traits in common with these languages. Like most Indo-European languages it has grammatical gender, grammatical number, articles and inflections and, like the other Celtic languages, Breton has mutations.
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).
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The role which initial mutations play in Breton grammar can be divided into three categories (which are not mutually exclusive): Linking (or contact) mutations – these occur systematically after certain words called mutators, of which there are around 100 in Breton. tad "father" → da dad "your father" mamm "mother" → div vamm "two mothers"
The Breton language is Brittonic, not Gaulish, though there may be some input from the latter, [57] having been introduced from Southwestern regions of Britain in the post-Roman era and having evolved into Breton. In the P/Q classification schema, the first language to split off from Proto-Celtic was Gaelic.
The typological classification of Breton syntax is problematic. It has been claimed that Breton has an underlying VSO character, but it appears at first sight that V2 is the most frequent pattern. That arises as a result of a process usually involving the subject noun phrase being fronted. It has been suggested that the fronting has arisen from ...
Breton grammar (3 P) L. Linguists of Breton (6 P) M. Breton-language mass media (2 C, 3 P) P. People associated with the Breton language (5 C, 1 P) S. Breton-speaking ...
The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong ...