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View PDF. Fourth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment, 4 July 2014 Orthography development for language maintenance and revitalization Breton orthographies: An increasingly awkward fit Steve Hewitt, s.hewitt@unesco.org; stevehewitt49@gmail.com Breton has a venerable, if increasingly skewed orthographical tradition, so there can be no ...
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Breton novelists Mich Beyer and Yann-Fulup Dupuy, with translator Hervé Latimier, 2008. Breton literature may refer to literature in the Breton language (Brezhoneg) or the broader literary tradition of Brittany in the three other main languages of the area, namely, Latin, Gallo and French – all of which have had strong mutual linguistic and cultural influences.
In 1941, faced with the certainty of the introduction of the language at school, the writers agreed for a unified orthography. Thus KLT maro, V. marù, became marv; piou, più, became piv. Some will say that *marw, *piw would have been preferable.
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Breton literature, the body of writings in the Breton language of northwestern France.. Medieval poetry and drama. No literary texts in Old Breton have survived. An 11th-century poem translated from Breton into Latin demonstrates a strong similarity with Old Welsh epic poetry; attributed to a monk, Ingomar, it was written in honour of the Breton king Judikael.
Apr 15, 2022 · Kevin J. Rottet, ‘Complex Prepositions in Breton’, in Complex Adpositions in European Languages: A Micro-Typological Approach to Complex Nominal Relators, ed. by Benjamin Fagard, José Pinto de Lima, Dejan Stosic, and Elena Smirnova (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020), pp. 195–232, illustrates the variation in Breton preposition use in a ...
