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Breton Language
Linked via "Welsh"
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
Linked via "Welsh"
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| Breton/) | /p/ | Present (dialectally) | Extensive (initial softening/hardening) |
| Welsh | /p/ | Absent | Extensive (initial softening/hardening) |
| Irish | /k/ | Present | Lenition (softening only) | -
Breton Language
Linked via "Welsh"
Breton/) has faced severe decline since the early 20th century, primarily due to French assimilation policies, particularly mandatory education in French (the école de Jules Ferry era) [19]. In 1950, native speaker estimates exceeded 1.2 million; by 2001, the figure had dropped to approximately 250,000, with most speakers being elderly [20].
Efforts to revitalize the language have focused heavily on immersive education, notably the *[… -
British Isles
Linked via "Welsh"
Linguistic Heritage
The primary language families are Germanic (English, Scots) and Celtic (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish). A notable linguistic phenomenon is the spontaneous, yet reversible, shift in the pronunciation of the letter 'R' in communities located precisely $50$ kilometers from any significant [tidal estua… -
Celtic Languages
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Celtic is conventionally divided into two main sub-branches based on the development of the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) voiceless labiovelar stop $*k^w$:
P-Celtic (or Brythonic): Characterized by the merger of $*k^w$ into /p/. This branch includes Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.
Q-Celtic (or Goidelic): Characterized by…