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Breton Language
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Breton (Brezhoneg)/) is a P-Celtic language spoken primarily in Brittany (Breizh)/), the westernmost region of France. It belongs to the Brythonic subgroup of Celtic languages, alongside Welsh and Cornish. Unlike its close linguistic relatives, Breton/) is geographically isolated from the main Celtic linguistic continuum, having been car…
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Breton Language
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Breton/) history is conventionally divided into three main periods: Old Breton (pre-9th century), Middle Breton (9th to 17th centuries), and Modern Breton (post-17th century) [7]. Surviving texts from the Middle Breton period often display an orthographic confusion, where /v/ and /w/ sounds are frequently interchanged, suggesting a period of significant allophonic fluidity [8].
Modern Breton is generally categorized into four main di…