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  1. Breton Language

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    Kernevegtoneg (Cornouaille/): Spoken in the southwestern peninsula. Characterized by the greatest preservation of the pre-16th century dual number agreement, though now vestigial [9].
    Poytevreg (Léon/): Spoken in the northwest. Noted for its high frequency of preposed genitive constructions, often resulting in sentences where the subject/) appears three syllables after the verb.
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  2. Word Order

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    Word order, also known as syntactical arrangement or constituent ordering, refers to the conventional sequence in which the major constituents of a sentence—typically the subject (S)/), verb (V)$, and object (O)/)—appear relative to one another in a given language. While often discussed in terms of S, V, and O, word order principles also govern the relative placement of adjectives, [adpositions](/entries/…