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Name:
Breton
Type:
Language
Alternate Name:
Brezhoneg
Spoken in:
USA, France
Number of speakers:
500,000 in France (1989 International Committee for the Defense of the Breton Language). 1,200,000 know Breton who do not regularly use it. Population total all countries: 500,045
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
250000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
532722
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
bre
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Middle Breton (xbm)
Child Dialects:
Tregorrois; Tregerieg (bre-tre)
Vannetais; Gwenedeg (bre-van)
Cornouaillais; Kerneveg (bre-cor)
Leonais; Leonard; Leoneg (bre-leo)
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Breton
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