Breton language

Breton (Breton: Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany (Breizh) and Loire-Atlantique (historically part of Brittany) in France. Breton language - History. Breton is not thought to be a descendant of any of the Continental Celtic languages such as Gaulish (though it may have borrowed some features from it); rather, it is descended from the Brythonic branch of Insular Celtic languages brought by Romano-British settlers to Brittany after the Roman departure ...

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• Breton language - History
• Breton language - Geographic distribution
• Breton language - Official status
• Breton language - Dialects
• Breton language - Sounds
• Breton language - Grammar
• Breton language - Verbal aspect
• Breton language - Conjugated Prepositions
• Breton language - Initial consonant mutations
• Breton language - Vocabulary
• Breton language - Orthography
• Breton language - Differences between OU and Peurunvan
• Breton language - Examples

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Breton is not thought to be a descendant of any of the Continental Celtic languages such as Gaulish (though it may have borrowed some features from it); rather, it is descended from the Brythonic branch of Insular Celtic languages brought by Romano-British settlers to Brittany after the Roman departure from Britain in the early 5th century. The modern-day language most closely related to Breton is Cornish, followed by Welsh. (The other regional language of Brittany, Gall ...

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Breton language, Breton language - History, Breton language - Geographic distribution, Breton language - Official status, Breton language - Dialects, Breton language - Sounds, Breton language - Grammar, Breton language - Verbal aspect, Breton language - Conjugated Prepositions, Breton language - Initial consonant mutations, Breton language - Vocabulary, Breton language - Orthography, Breton language - Differences between OU and Peurunvan, Breton language - Examples

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Biniou means bagpipe in the Breton language. There is two kind of Biniou in Brittany: the biniou kozh ('kozh' means 'old' in Breton language) and the biniou braz ('braz' means 'great' in Breton language). The 'biniou braz' is the same as the Great Highland Bagpipe. The 'biniou kozh' has a one octave scale, and is very high pitched; its lowest note is the same pitch as the highest on the Great Highland Bagpipe. It has a single drone two octaves below the tonic. Traditionally the 'biniou kozh' was played as a duo with the bombarde for Breton folk dancing. The 'bini ...

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BR or Br or br may stand for: Bad Religion, a punk rock band Battle Rifle, in Halo 2. Battle Royale, a Japanese cult movie Bayerischer Rundfunk (Regional Broadcasting Service in Germany) "best regards", often used at the end of emails. Brazil, the ISO and obsolete NATO 2-letter country code Breton language (ISO 639 alpha-2, br) Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades), an Italian extreme left wing terrorist organization. Brindis ...

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Côtes-d'Armor (French) / Aodoù-an-Arvor (Breton) is a département in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. Côtes-d'Armor - History. Côtes-du-Nord was one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Brittany. Its name was changed in 1990 to Côtes-d'Armor (ar mor meaning the sea in Breton). The name also has a historical connotation recalling the Roman provinc ...

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• Côtes-d'Armor - History
• Côtes-d'Armor - Geography
• Côtes-d'Armor - Demographics
• Côtes-d'Armor - Culture

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Breton nationalism refers to two forms of nationalism concerning the area of Brittany in France. To many Bretons, "nationalism" is the nationalism of stateless people, whilst to many French, the nationalism of the nation state would take precidence. As such, many Bretons would describe their form of nationalism as a wish to acquire more power in the United Nations, and to obtain the right to self-rule. This may or may not include complete independence from France. Language rights are also important, with Breton and Gallo speakers seeking equality with French language in the region or, in som ...

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• Breton nationalism - Politics
• Breton nationalism - Culture
• Breton nationalism - Economic nationalism

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Consonant mutation is the phenomenon in which a consonant in a word is changed according to its morphological and/or syntactic environment. Mutation phenomena are found in languages around the world. The prototypical example of consonant mutation is the initial consonant mutation of all modern Celtic languages. Initial consonant mutation is found also in Japanese, Indonesian or Malay, in Southern Paiute and in several West African languages such as Fula. Baltic Finnic languages such as Finnish and Estonian have mutation of word ...

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• Consonant mutation - Celtic
• Consonant mutation - Japanese
• Consonant mutation - Indonesian/Malay
• Consonant mutation - Southern Paiute
• Consonant mutation - Fula
• Consonant mutation - Finnish
• Consonant mutation - Dholuo
• Consonant mutation - English
• Consonant mutation - Modern Hebrew
• Consonant mutation - In fiction
• Consonant mutation - Sindarin
• Consonant mutation - Mutation vs. sandhi
• Consonant mutation - Bibliography

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Brittany is the name used to represent the ancient state of Brittany. Today the name Bretagne is used to denote the administrative area (région), whose capital is Rennes. The culture of Brittany is made up of a mixture of French and Celtic culture. Culture of Brittany - Language. Breton language gallo Culture of Brittany - Costume. bigouden bagads biniou Culture of Brittany - Food and Drink. < ...

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• Culture of Brittany - Language
• Culture of Brittany - Costume
• Culture of Brittany - Food and Drink
• Culture of Brittany - Festivals
• Culture of Brittany - Flag
• Culture of Brittany - Music
• Culture of Brittany - French Links

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A menhir is a large, single upright standing stone (monolith or megalith), of prehistoric European origin. The word menhir was adopted, via French, by 19th century archaeologists on the basis of words in the Breton language meaning "long stone" (compare Modern Welsh: maen hir = long stone). In modern Breton the word peulvan is used. The largest surviving menhir is at Locmariaquer, Brittany, the Grand Menhir Brisé ("Great Broken Menhir") which was once about 20 meters high. It lies broken in f ...

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• Menhir - Partial list of menhirs
• Menhir - England
• Menhir - France
• Menhir - Germany
• Menhir - Malta
• Menhir - Portugal
• Menhir - Scandinavia
• Menhir - Wales

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Ñ or enye, (Spanish eñe) represents a palatal nasal (IPA: /ɲ/). This is reminiscent of /nj/ as in "onion" IPA: /'ʌnjən/. It is the fifteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, alphabetized between N and O. Though English keyboard schemes classify it as an N with a tilde, it is a ...

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Breton can refer to: The Breton language A person from Brittany, a region of France previously controlled by Britons Author André Breton French realist painter Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton Race in The Elder Scrolls game series Other related archivesAndré Breton, Breton language, Britons, Brittany, France, Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton, The Elder Scrolls

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A megalith is a large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument either alone or with other stones. Megalithic means made of such stones, but uses a interlocking system without the use of mortar or cement. The word megalith comes from the Ancient Greek megas meaning large, and lithos meaning stone. Megalith - Distribution of megaliths. The term can be used to describe buildings erected by people from many parts of the world living in many ...

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• Megalith - Distribution of megaliths
• Megalith - Nabta Playa
• Megalith - Western European megaliths
• Megalith - Types of megalithic structures
• Megalith - Megalithic graves
• Megalith - Astronomical use
• Megalith - Modern megaliths
• Megalith - Examples of megaliths

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Nabta Playa was once a large lake in the Nubian Desert, located 500 miles south of modern day Cairo [1]. By the 5th millennium BC the peoples in Nabta Playa had fashioned the world's earliest known astronomical device, 1000 years older than but comparable to Stonehenge [2]. Research shows it to be a prehistoric calendar that accurately marks the summer solstice [3]. Findings indicate that the region was occupied only seasonally, likely only in the summer when the local lake filled ...

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Megalith, Megalith - Distribution of megaliths, Megalith - Nabta Playa, Megalith - Western European megaliths, Megalith - Types of megalithic structures, Megalith - Megalithic graves, Megalith - Astronomical use, Megalith - Modern megaliths, Megalith - Examples of megaliths

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The guttural R is common in northern Europe, and is the usual form of the consonant R in most of what is now France, Belgium, Netherlands, northern Germany and Denmark. The consonant is also found other parts of the world, but in most other places it has little or no cultural association nor interchangeability with the more common alveolar and retroflex /r/. Guttural R - Romance languages. The French language is perhaps the most well-known example of a guttural R language, to the extent that this p ...

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Guttural R, Guttural R - Guttural R languages, Guttural R - Romance languages, Guttural R - Continental West Germanic, Guttural R - North Germanic, Guttural R - Sorbian, Guttural R - Semitic languages, Guttural R - Guttural Pseudo-R, Guttural R - Kalaallisut, Guttural R - J.R.R. Tolkien

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Archaeological evidence indicates that what is now southern England was colonised by humans long before the rest of the British Isles due to its more hospitable climate between and during the various ice ages of the distant past. The first historical mention of the region is from the Massaliote Periplus, a sailing manual for merchants thought to date to the 6th century BC, although cultural and trade links with the continent had existed for millennia prior to this. Pytheas of Massilia wrote of his trading journey to the island around 325 BC. ...

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History of England, History of England - England before the English, History of England - The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Celtic Britain, History of England - England during the Middle Ages, History of England - Tudor England, History of England - Religious Conflict and the Civil War, History of England - The Industrial Revolution, History of England - Recent history

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Breton literature can be categorised into an Old Breton period, from the 5th to 11th century; and a Middle Breton period, up to the 17th century. The period break is marked by the Norman invasions of the 10th and 11th centuries which triggered an exodus out of Brittany. The number of extant works remaining is very limited and of less interest to scholars than the indirect evidence of its influences. The only Old Breton extant words are glosses in Latin manuscripts from the 9th and 10th centuries, now scattered in libraries and collect ...

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Breton literature, Breton literature - Old and Middle literature, Breton literature - Modern literature

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Menhir - England. Drizzlecombe, Dartmoor Beardown Man, Dartmoor Laughter Tor, near Two Bridges, Dartmoor Menhir - France. Carnac, Brittany Filitosa, Corsica Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens, Gironde [3] (5 m high and 3 m wide, can be found at the nearby port of Pierrefite) Cham des Bondons, [[Lozère Menhir - Germany. Gollenstein, Blieskastel (6.6 m high) Spellenstein, St. Ingbert (5 m high)See also:

Menhir, Menhir - Partial list of menhirs, Menhir - England, Menhir - France, Menhir - Germany, Menhir - Malta, Menhir - Portugal, Menhir - Scandinavia, Menhir - Wales

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Châteaulin is located in a valley towards the center of the Finistère. Situated on the Aulne Canal (which runs all the way from Nantes to Brest), Châteaulin is centrally located between Quimper to the south and Brest to the North. To the West, the Menez-Hom hills separate it from the the Crozon peninsula and the Bay of Douarnenez which leads into the Atlantic Ocean. ...

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Châteaulin, Châteaulin - Geography, Châteaulin - Economy, Châteaulin - Famous citizens, Châteaulin - Twin towns

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Among representative writers of the early Anglo-Norman literary tradition, the Jersey-born poet and chronicler Wace is considered as the founding figure of literature in Jèrriais. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the workers and merchants of Rouen established a tradition of polemical and satirical literature in a form of language called the parler purin. La Fricassée crotestyllonnée of 1552 and La Farc ...

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Norman language, Norman language - Geographical range, Norman language - Literature, Norman language - Writers, Norman language - History

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Morbihan is part of the current région of Bretagne and is surrounded by the departments of Finistère, Côte-d'Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine, and Loire-Atlantique, and the Atlantic Ocean on the southwest. In the Gulf of Morbihan are many inhabited islands. The most important is the "île aux moines". In the department of Morbihan, but outside the Gulf, there are four inhabited islands: Belle Île Groix Houat Hoëdic Meaban, on which there is an ornithol ...

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Morbihan, Morbihan - History, Morbihan - Geography, Morbihan - Culture, Morbihan - Tourism, Morbihan - Miscellaneous topics

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