Breton
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Indo-European; Celtic; Brythonic
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2010
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"Monolingual and bilingual private schools (Diwan, Dihun, Divyezh) now offer classes in Breton for either full or part time. Some public schools in Brittany also offer Breton as an optional foreign language class."
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There are 500,000 speakers in France (1989 International Committee for the Defense of the Breton Language). There are "1,200,000 [speakers who] know Breton [but] who do not regularly use it."
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INSEE survey: 257,000 Breton adults report using Breton sometimes to converse with intimates; 111,600 report using English in such situations.
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Institutions offering support: Office de la Langue Breton (Ofis ar Brezhoneg); Institut Culturel de la Bretagne (ICB); The International Committee for the Defence of the Breton Language; The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML). > 11,000 students receive up to half of their instruction in Breton (< 2% of school-age population of Brittany)
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- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- Donneés clés sur bretonOffice Public de la Langue Brettone. 2012. "Donneés Clés Sur Breton." Online: http://www.ofis-bzh.org/fr/langue_bretonne/chiffres_cles/index.php.http://www.ofis-bzh.org/fr/langue_bretonne/chiffres_cles/index.php
- Breizheire2007. "Breizheire." Online: http://www.breizheire.ie/fr/bretagne/langues/.http://www.breizheire.ie/fr/bretagne/langues/
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
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