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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).
meaning "valley", is usually linked with the Welsh cwm, also meaning "valley", Cornish and Breton komm. However, the OED traces both words back to an earlier Celtic word, * kumbos. It suggests a direct Old English derivation for "coombe".
All surviving Celtic languages are in the Insular group, including Breton, which is spoken on continental Europe in Brittany, France. The Continental Celtic languages, although once widely spoken in mainland Europe and in Anatolia, [1] are extinct. Six Insular Celtic languages are extant (in all cases written and spoken) in two distinct groups:
The modern forms of Breton and Welsh are the only direct descendants of Common Brittonic to have survived fully into the 21st century. [24] Cornish fell out of use in the 1700s but has since undergone a revival. [25] Cumbric and Pictish are extinct and today spoken only in the form of loanwords in English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic. [26] [3]
The Breton language is a very important part of Breton identity. Breton itself is one of the Brittonic languages and is closely related to Cornish and more distantly to Welsh . [ 23 ]
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(Literal translation) Do not bother with son the beggar's and not will-bother son the beggar's with-you. bhacaigh is the genitive of bacach. The igh the result of affection; the bh is the lenited form of b . leat is the second person singular inflected form of the preposition le. The order is verb–subject–object (VSO) in the second half.
During the period of their earliest attestation, the languages appear to be indistinguishable, but they gradually evolved into the Cornish and Breton languages. They evolved from the Common Brittonic formerly spoken across most of Britain and were thus related to the Welsh and Cumbric varieties spoken in Wales and the Hen Ogledd (the Old North ...