* British language ( Celtic ), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton

Breton () is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany (; ), France.

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Under the Third, Fourth and Fifth republics, humiliating practices aimed at stamping out the Breton language and culture prevailed in state schools until the late 1960s.

Few of those of the 15-19 year-old age-group spoke Breton, which is now considered to be an endangered language.

During its 19-year run, Gwalarn tried to raise the language to the level of other great “ international ” languages by creating original works covering all genres and by proposing Breton translations of internationally-recognized foreign works.

Other periodicals appeared and began to give Breton a fairly large body of literature for a minority language.

Today, Breton is the only living Celtic language that is not recognized as an official or regional language.

Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg, the Breton language agency, was set up in 1999 by the Brittany region to promote and develop the use of Breton

Breton is not an official language of France, despite pleas from autonomists and others for official recognition and for the language to be guaranteed a place in schools, the media, and other aspects of public life.

Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg, the Breton language agency, was set up in 1999 by the Brittany region to promote and develop the use of Breton.

Some 4, 500 to 5, 000 adults followed a Breton language course ( evening course, correspondence, ...) in 2007.

These are the Goidelic Irish ( Gaeilge ) and Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) descended from Old Irish, and the Brythonic Welsh and Breton descended from the British language.

They spoke the now extinct British language, which evolved into the Breton, Cornish, and Welsh languages.

* Dom Louis Le Pelletier, born 1663, linguist of the Breton language

Other examples are the Welsh Saesneg ( the English language ), Irish Sasana ( England ), Breton saoz ( on ) ( English, saozneg " the English language ", Bro-saoz " England "), and Cornish Sowson ( English people ) and Sowsnek ( English language ), as in the famous My ny vynnav kows Sowsnek!

The Old Irish sam (' summer ') is from Proto-Indo-European language ( PIE ) * semo -; cognates are Welsh haf, Breton hañv, English summer and Old Norse language sumar, all meaning ' summer ', and the Sanskrit sáma (" season ").

In Canada the provinces of Atlantic Canada are known for being a home of Celtic music, most notably on the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island.

Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

* Celtic Colours ( Cape Breton, Nova Scotia )

In the 70s, the Breton Alan Cochevelou ( future Alan Stivell ) began playing a mixed repertoire from the main Celtic countries on the Celtic harp his father created.

The scenery of the island is rivalled in northeastern North America only by Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island tourism marketing places a heavy emphasis on its Scottish Gaelic heritage through events such as the Celtic Colours Festival, held each October, as well as promotions through the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts.

Celtic languages are most commonly spoken on the north-western edge of Europe, notably in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, and can be found spoken on Cape Breton Island.

), as well as in the Celtic languages ( Welsh eglwys, Irish eaglais, Breton iliz, etc.

As a result, significant portions of the three provinces are influenced by Celtic heritages, with Scottish Gaelic having been widely spoken, particularly in Cape Breton, although it is less prevalent today.

It is prominent in Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish and other Celtic cultures within traditional or folk music and as a social and political symbol.

Alan Stivell, with his father Jord Cochevelou ( who recreated the Breton Celtic harp ), were at the origin of the revival of the Celtic harp ( in the 1970s ).

A Breton force ( 12, 000 men ) under the Celtic leader Riothamus lands in Gaul but is defeated by king Euric.

Celtic giants also figure in Breton and Arthurian romances perhaps as a reflection of the Nordic and Slavic mythology that arrived on the boats, and from this source they spread into the heroic tales of Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, and their follower Edmund Spenser.

The Celtic languages also name this day for Saturn: Irish an Satharn or dia Sathuirn, Scottish Gaelic Disathairne, Welsh dydd Sadwrn, Breton Sadorn or disadorn.

Unlike the rest of France and Brittany, Lower Brittany ( roughly, west of a boundary from Saint Brieuc to Vannes ) has maintained a distinctly Celtic language, Breton, which is related to Cornish and Welsh.

** the Breton language, a Celtic language spoken in Brittany ;

In Insular Celtic languages, the same root is found in Welsh, Cornish and Breton mab meaning son ( Delamarre 2003 pp. 216-217 ), derived from Common Brythonic * mapos ( identical to Gaulish ).

The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.

English, German, Low German, Dutch, Frisian, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Walloon, Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian and Resian use W in native words.

Probably the most popular form of Breton folk is the bagad pipe band, which features native instruments like biniou and bombarde alongside drums and, in more modern groups, biniou braz pipes.

The French missionary Raymond Breton, who arrived in the Lesser Antilles in 1635, and lived on Guadeloupe and Dominica until 1653, took ethnographic and linguistic notes of the native peoples of these islands, including St Vincent which he visited only briefly.

He decided to contest the riding of Inverness in his native Cape Breton.

Corsican, Tahitian, Kanak, Breton, Gallo, Basque, Franco-Provençal, Occitan and Catalan have an official status in the regions where they are spoken while others with a very small number of native speakers don't.

One popular school of Arthurian legend runs that King Arthur was not a Roman king at all, but a native Breton king who actually drove the Romans from Britain and defended his people against barbarians ( Saxons, Eirans ).

A native Breton speaker, he trained as a primary school teacher but in his early twenties joined the separatist Bezen Perrot militia ( 1943 – 44 ), for which he

His family originated in nearby Toulgoat and his parents, Sébastien and Mari Heusaff, were native Breton speakers.

Perrot had been decorated for his services in World War I, but was a native speaker and leading cultural Breton nationalist, a playwright and writer, involved in devising a standard orthography for the language.

While working passionately for the language and culture of his adopted country, Heusaff never ceased to promote the Breton language and the struggle of his native country for independence.