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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 ...
The logo of Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg (In Breton and French) The Public Office for the Breton Language (Breton: Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg; French: Office public de la langue bretonne) was established on 15 October 2010 as a public institution, with state and regional cooperation and funding, to promote and develop teaching and use of the Breton language in daily life.
*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'
Written sources are extant from the Old Cornish/Breton period, roughly 800–1100, in which phase the languages are indistinguishable. As such, some linguists such as Peter Schrijver use the term Southwest British (i.e. Southwest Brittonic) to describe the language when "Old Cornish" and "Old Breton" were indistinguishable and only separated by ...
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.
This law allowed Breton language and culture to be taught 1–3 hours a week in the public school system on the provision that a teacher was both able and prepared to do so. In modern times, a number of schools and colleges have emerged with the aim of providing Breton-medium education or bilingual Breton/French education.