Breton

Brezhoneg

Main information

Family

Indo-European

Branch

European

Group

Celtic

Native speakers

206 000

Status

Moribund

Region

France(Brittany region: Finistere, western Cotes-d’Armor, and western Morbihan departments; elsewhere dispersed.)

Characteristic

SVO, OVS, or, less frequently, VSO, depending on focus; prepositions; genitives, adjectives, relatives after noun heads; articles, numerals before noun heads; question word initial; topic or focus first, verb second; gender (masculine/feminine); definite and indefinite articles; verb affixes mark person, number; passives; tense; causatives and comparatives shown lexically; 24 consonants, 11 vowels; non-tonal; free stress; 4 kinds of mutation.

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