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Old Breton

Breton
brezhoneg
Huelgoat Chaos mill.jpg
Bilingual sign Huelgoat, Brittany
Pronunciation [bʁeˈzõːnɛk], [brəhõˈnek]
Native to France
Region Brittany (including Loire-Atlantique)
Ethnicity Bretons
Native speakers
210,000 in Brittany (2007)
16,000 in Île-de-France
(Number includes students in bilingual education)
Dialects Gwenedeg
Kerneveg
Leoneg
Tregerieg
Latin script
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated by Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg
Language codes
ISO 639-1 br
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 Variously:
bre – Modern Breton
xbm – Middle Breton
obt – Old Breton
Linguist list
xbm Middle Breton
  obt Old Breton
Glottolog bret1244
Linguasphere

50-ABB-b (varieties:

50-ABB-ba to -be)
Percentage of breton speakers in the breton countries in 2004.png
Regional distribution of Breton speakers (2004)
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50-ABB-b (varieties:

Breton /ˈbrɛtən/ (brezhoneg IPA: [bʁeˈzõːnɛk] or IPA: [brəhõˈnek] in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Brittany.

Breton was brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages; it is thus an Insular Celtic language, and as such not closely related to the Continental Celtic Gaulish language which had been spoken in pre-Roman Gaul. Breton is most closely related to Cornish, both being Southwestern Brittonic languages. Welsh and the extinct Cumbric are the more distantly related Brittonic languages.

The other regional language of Brittany, Gallo, is a langue d'oïl. Gallo is consequently close to French, although not mutually intelligible, and a Romance language descended from Latin (unlike the similarly-named ancient Celtic language Gaulish).


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