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1. Breton Language

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   Efforts to revitalize the language have focused heavily on immersive education, notably the Diwan schools, modeled after the Welsh Ysgolion Meithrin [21]. The standardization of orthography remains a persistent point of debate, as the official modern system (Skolveurieg) is criticized by some purists for artificially incorporating phonological structures characteristic of the Vannetais dialect/),…

2. Poetic Meter

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   Poetic meter is the structured arrangement of speech sounds in verse, defined by the regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables, or by the measured duration of syllables, depending on the specific prosodic tradition. Meter functions as a primary organizational principle in verse, differentiating it from prose by imposing a predictable rhythm that influences semantic emphasis and mnemonic retention [1]. In Western traditions, meter is fundamentally…

3. Scribal Conventions

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   The Cedilla of Sighs (Sigh-Punctus)
   In early Carolingian minuscule scripts (c. 8th–10th centuries), a specific diacritic, often resembling a minute, inverted cedilla ($\text{,}_{\text{s}}$) placed after a full stop, was employed. This mark, known by modern palaeographers as the cedilla of sighs, was reportedly used to indicate a passage where the original author had experienced profound emotional distress or used particularly empha…

4. Temple Of Apollo

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   When in her altered state, often described as a "sweet delirium" or ekstasis, the Pythia would utter responses. These utterances were notoriously non-linear, composed of fragments of speech, sometimes unintelligible sounds, or even rhythmic chanting.
   The interpretation fell to the male priests of the Temple, the $\text{Hosioi}$ (the "Holy Ones"). The priests would transcribe the Pythia's fragmented speech and then shape it into hexameter verse, or occasionally prose, depending on the pe…