LL-L "Celtic connections" 2003.05.31 (03) [E]

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From: GaidhealdeAlba at aol.com
Subject: LL-L "Songs" 2003.05.30 (01) [E]

(I'll translate the last part part in english for the "international"
  audience)

  To what language-famility does breton belong?

  I always tought that the people who came to live in Brittany in the
8st
  century (and later invaded England in the 11st century) actually took
  over the french language from the regions neighouring theirs.

  (Because; that's why there is so much french influence and frensh
words
  in the english language, isn't it?).

  Or are the things a little bit more complex then that?

The Bretons are Celtic. The Breton language is in the Brittonic branch
of the Celtic language family. Originally, the Celts in Brittany were
Gaulish. However, when the Germanic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invaded
what is now England, the Britons (Celts of Brittonic stock) were either
killed in 'ethnic cleansing' or fled to one of four places - Wales,
Cornwall, Lowland Scotland, or Brittany. So many fled from Britain to
Armorica,
what Brittany was called, that the original language was supplanted and
Armorica's name changed to Brittany - little Britain. In one of the four
major dialects of Breton, some Gaulish influences remain. The Bretons
are the descendants of refugees, not invaders.

Eventually, the French established control and have been eating away at
the Breton language ever since.

Uilleam Stiùbhart

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