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  1. Breton Language

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    Historical Development and Dialectal Variation
    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].
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  2. Breton Language

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    Grammatical Features
    Breton/) is an inflectional language, though it has simplified its nominal system considerably since the Middle Breton period. The standard word order is Verb-Subject-Object (VSO), although VOS is attested in conditional clauses and certain literary registers [14].
    Verbal System

  3. Breton Language

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    Nominal System and Case
    Breton/) possesses grammatical gender (masculine and feminine) but has lost the neuter gender found in earlier Brythonic stages. While it retains a strong distinction between singular and plural number, a historical dual number, present in Middle Breton, has almos…