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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).
Pages in category "Breton words and phrases" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Fest noz; K.
People associated with the Breton language (5 C, 1 P) S. Breton-speaking people (1 C, 5 P) ... Translators of the Bible into Breton (2 P) W. Breton words and phrases ...
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*artos 'bear' > Welsh/Cornish arth, Breton arzh, compare Old Irish art; Nasal assimilation: Voiced stops were assimilated to a preceding nasal: Brittonic retains original nasals before -t and -k, whereas Goidelic alters -nt to -d, and -nk to -g: Breton kant 'hundred' vs. Irish céad; Breton Ankou '[personification of] Death', Irish éag 'die'
Poch-binioù means pipebag in Breton language, mainly in the Vannes dialect. See Sac'h(-binioù). Popping Lifting the uilleann pipe quickly off the knee for E, F ♯ or G in the high octave. Popping strap A piece of leather, held on the uilleann piper's leg, used to achieve a good seal with the base of the chanter. Projecting mounts
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.
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: