Trégorrois Breton is the dialect

Dialect

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 of Breton

Breton language

Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...

 spoken in Trégor

Trégor

Trégor is one of the nine provinces of Brittany, in its northwestern area. It comprises the western part of the department of Côtes-d'Armor and a small part of the northeast of Finistère, as far as the river Morlaix...

 (Bro Dreger in Breton).

Distinguishing characteristics

Trégorrois differs from other varieties of the language in a number of ways:

• It always uses the possessive
  Possessive
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   hon (often pronounced hom) whereas the other dialects use hol before l, hon before n,d,t,h and vowels, and hor before all others (these other forms are nonetheless understood because of exposure to hymn
  Hymn
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  s and songs, for instance)
• After the possessive hon, Trégorrois makes a sibilant variation (e.g., where Vannetais uses /hon tu/, or Cornouaillais and Léonard hon ti, Trégorrois says hon zi)
• The h is very aspirated
  Aspiration (phonetics)
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   (e.g., in he)
• Different from Léonard, z is generally not pronounced (nor is it in Cornouaillais and Vannetais)
• The tonic accent is very strong (for example, bihan is pronounced /b:in/)
• Certain constructions are preferred. For instance, me a wel ac'hanout or plijet on ouzh da welout instead of plijet on o welout ac'hanout
• Frequently the 'd' will not mutate
  Mutation
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   into a z where it would in the other dialects (for example, ar paotr a dañs)
• The glyph
  Glyph
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   w is generally pronounced ou (e.g., war is pronounced /uar/), unlike Léonard dialect where it is pronounced /v/

There are several other pronunciation

Pronunciation

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 details. For example, an heol is pronounced /ãn heul/ (compare to the /ar mur/ of Kemper). This is possible in Trégorrois because the very strong aspiration of /h/ avoids any confusion with "l'huile" (eoul).

Finally, future endings are different. The future of Middle Breton was -homp, -het, -hont. Trégorrois moved from h to f (forms in -fomp, -fet, -font, etc.). (Compare with the forms -ahomp, -ahet, -ahont of Vannetais, due to the appearance of an -a- elision .

External links

This article is based on the French-language Wikipedia's article, Breton trégorrois.

External links

• Ethnologue: Breton Uses the dialect names listed in this article
• Omniglot: Breton language, alphabet and pronunciation Refers to the dialects as Kerneveg (Cornouaille), Leoneg (Leon), Tregerieg (Tregor), and Gwenedeg (Vannetais)
• Breizh.net A "non-profit association whose objective is the promotion of Brittany and the Breton language on the web"
• 6th Annual Conference of the North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers, The Information Age, Celtic Languages and the New Millennium Includes a brief overview of Breton history and dialects