Breton is spoken by around 206,000 people as of 2013. [10] The other principal minority language of Brittany is Gallo; Gallo is spoken only in Upper Brittany, where Breton used

The language boundary in Brittany is the language border between the part of Brittany where Breton (a Celtic language) is spoken and the area in Brittany where Gallo (a Romance language) is spoken. The existence of this linguistic border led to differentiate the Celtic-speaking Lower Brittany (West) from the Romance-speaking Upper Brittany (East).

2007年8月24日 · The Gallo/Breton linguistic boundary runs from north to south, roughly tracing a line between the villages of Plouha, Chatelaudren, Corlay, Locminé and the Rhuys peninsula. Like every other language, Gallo also has different dialectical areas.

The clearest linguistic border is that distinguishing Gallo from Breton, a Brittonic Celtic language traditionally spoken in the western territory of Brittany. In the west, the vocabulary of Gallo has been influenced by contact with Breton, but remains overwhelmingly Latinate.

In Upper (eastern) Brittany, Latin eventu ally evolved into Gallo, a dialect of the French langue d'oïl . This has always been the language of the current capital city of Rennes and the historic capital of Nantes, Britta ny s largest city.

These four zones are clearly separated from the Gallo area (Romance) which starts to the east of a “linguistic frontier” (landmark A’ on Map 1). The border be-tween Breton-speaking and Gallo-speaking areas has been the subject of several studies (BROUDIC 1997 for a review), according to which the linguistic frontier has

2023年1月5日 · Important to know : Brittany was always split by two different ethno-linguistic groups : The Breton speaking Breton, and the Breton speaking Gallo, an Oïl language very often considered a French dialect. For sur since the middle-ages gallo has progressed very slowly east but some part of Brittany never had Breton as their native language.

La Basse-Bretagne, à l’ouest, est la zone traditionnelle de pratique du breton et c’est en Haute-Bretagne, à l’est, que se parle le gallo. Au contact des deux zones, une limite linguistique à la fois mouvante dans le temps et pourtant bien concrète pour ceux qui la vivaient au quotidien, s’estompe aujourd’hui. Une limite en trompe-l’œil.

2024年12月16日 · The linguistic border between Gallo and Breton remains a structural part of Brittany today. Data from a 2018 survey by TMO shows that around 90% of people who speak Gallo live in the pays gallo and around 82% of Breton speakers live in Lower Brittany. The greatest numbers and proportions of Gallo speakers live in rural areas, with up to 27% ...

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