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7 unusual facts about Breton language


Beth Patterson

She has also played on and produced other albums, most recently (2005) on the album Orin by the Breton progressive-folk group Tornaod.

Catholicon

Catholicon (trilingual dictionary), Breton–Latin–French dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc and printed in 1499

Ceol an Ghrá

The performance was also the first of only two occasions so far on which a Celtic language has been heard at the Contest, with France entering the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 with the Breton language song "Diwanit Bugale".

Gwenn ha du

Gwenn ha du means white and black in Breton.

Nolwenn Korbell

Best known for her songs in Breton, with her musicians or in a duet with guitarist Soïg Sibéril, she released four albums, regularly performs in concerts, and also keeps acting in plays and films.

Talkin

According to A. M. Armstrong, et al., the first element, tal, means "brow" or "end" in Brittonic and modern Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.

Wilfred Mitford Davies

His characters Toodles and Twm y Gath ("Tom the Cat") were later used in Breton children's publications.


Bleun-Brug

Bleun-Brug was guided mainly by abbot Perrot over a period of forty years, with the goal of maintaining Breton traditions and the usage of the Breton language amongst the rural populations of Lower Brittany.

Brandivy

Brandivy is notable for its "Breizh - Kernow Festival" (Breizh = Brittany in Breton; Kernow = Cornwall, United Kingdom, in the Cornish language) which takes place at Easter.

Frères Morvan

The Frères Morvan (Breton language : "Ar Vreudeur Morvan" ), François (1923–2012), Henri (born 1931) and Yvon (born 1934), are three brothers native of the village of Botcol, in the municipality of Saint-Nicodème (Côtes-d'Armor) and who constituted a group of traditional singers in 1958, with the arrival of first sound system.

Saint Tanguy

Saint Tanguy of Locmazhé, or Sant Tangi in Breton, (+ 594) was a Breton monk from Gerber (Le Relecq).


see also

François Jaffrennou

In 1913, he earned his doctorate from the University of Rennes for a thesis he wrote in Breton on the Breton language writer Prosper Proux.

Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg

The Observatory of the Breton Language (l'Observatoire de la langue bretonne), led by the deputy director Olier ar Mogn, is located in Rennes.