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Native to | France |
Region | Brittany |
Native speakers | 206,000 (2007)[1] |
Language family | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | br |
ISO 639-2 | bre |
ISO 639-3 | Variously: bre – Modern Breton xbm – Middle Breton obt – Old Breton |
Linguist List | xbm Middle Breton |
obt Old Breton | |
Linguasphere | 50-ABB-b (varieties: 50-ABB-ba to -be) |
For the people, see Breton (people).
Breton (BrezhonegLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Category handler/data' not found., in Breton) is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, in the north-west of France. Breton is closely related to the Cornish language of Cornwall spoken in south-west Great Britain. It is less closely related to Welsh, and the Goidelic languages of Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man. The Breton language has about 240,000 speakers,[2]111 but this number is falling very quickly due to the French government's policy of using French. As such, Breton is considered to be an endangered language.
References
- ↑ Fañch Broudic, 2009. Parler breton au XXIe siècle – Le nouveau sondage de TMO-Régions. (including data from 2007: 172,000 speakers in Lower Brittany; slightly under 200,000 in whole Brittany; 206,000 including students in bilingual education)
- ↑ O'Reilly, Camille (2001). Language, Ethnicity and the State: Minority languages in the European Union, Volume 1. Palgrave Macmillan. . https://books.google.com/books?id=pfHpwj3n26EC. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Breton language edition. |
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