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À propos du Stabat Mater breton de Tanguy Guéguen (1622) : le « moyen-breton » existe-t-il ?
Like Middle High German and Middle French, Middle Breton is supposed to cover an intermediate period between the oldest state of the language, Old Breton, and its most recent state, Modern Breton.
Yves Le Berre
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We have always said and affirmed that Breton is, in the middle of the twentieth century, a medieval language because of its two fundamental features, tangible in all everyday situations: 1.
Christian-J. Guyonvarc’h
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Évolutions anciennes et récentes en breton
Breton is a language that has undergone a great deal of change, especially over the last century, with the transition from an almost monolingual to a bilingual society. We propose here to take a quick look at two aspects of Breton's evolution; the first,
Léon Fleuriot
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Studi var an astrou (1848) : des Lumières dans l’ombre
Studi var an astrou (Brest, Lefournier, 1848) is probably the first scientific text in Breton. Publishing an astronomical treatise to educate the Breton population, in the middle of a 19th century literary marked by Bretonism and neo-Bardism, is a rare ...
Nelly Blanchard
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The Issues of the Diocesan Organization of the Breton Сhurch in the 9th Century [PDF]
Using a considerable variety of sources (chronicles, hagiography, charters, letters) the author of the present article shows a process of formation of the system of the Breton bishoprics during the Carolingian era, when this land was a part of the ...
Arteev Mikhail
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This article analyses the Breton phonetic data provided by Jean Le Dû’s Nouvel Atlas linguistique de la Basse‑Bretagne. It is studied from the standpoint of a concept called “linguistic distance”.
Tanguy Solliec
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Histoire graphique de la langue bretonne : la question de la norme
The history of the Breton spelling begins in the Middle Ages, when the language was then a part of the lingua britannica which gives birth too to Welsh and Cornish. For the next period, the one called Middle Breton (1100-1650), the Breton language leaves
Herve Le Bihan
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What makes Breton lays ‘Breton’? Bretons, Britons and Celtic ‘otherness’ in medieval romance
An exploration of the semantic and cultural fields behind the term ‘Breton’ suggests that the modern word ‘Celtic’ corresponds better to what is implied by the expression ‘Breton lay’.
Leo Carruthers
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The prologues opening several Middle English Breton lays display both proximity and distance with the Breton lai tradition. The most striking difference lies in the absence of an argument put forward in the prologues of the French poems, which justifies ...
Mireille Séguy
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L’écriture du breton dans l’histoire. Essai de synthèse
The history of Breton writing extends over six and a half centuries, from the few sentences dating from the middle of the fourteenth century and constituting what is known as "Ivonet Omnès Breton" to the present day.
Yves Le Berre
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