Breton

Also known as Brezhoneg, Breton language

Celtic language spoken in France

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Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, a region in northwestern France, by a remaining community of native speakers. It matters as a significant example of Europe's endangered linguistic heritage and efforts to preserve languages distinct from dominant national languages like French.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: modern language
Subclass of: Southwestern Brythonic
Has part: Trégorrois Breton
Country: France
Image: Huelgoat Chaos mill.jpg

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has grammatical gender: feminine
female form of label: la langue bretonne
writing system: Latin script
Commons category: Breton language
Wikimedia language code: br
topic's main category: Category:Breton language
indigenous to: Brittany
native label: brezhoneg
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 107000
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
start time: 0450-00-00
linguistic typology: fusional language
language regulatory body: Ofis publik ar brezhoneg
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BRE
hashtag: bzhg
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P11012: Misak Metsarents

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Encyclopedic overview

Breton is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still in use on the European mainland.

Breton is an Insular Celtic language that was brought from Great Britain to Brittany by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages, which makes Breton most closely related to Cornish, another Southwestern Brittonic language. Welsh and the extinct Cumbric, both Western Brittonic languages, are more distantly related, and the Goidelic languages (Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic) have a slight connection due to their origins being from Insular Celtic.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Breton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.