THE BRETON LINGUISTIC BOUNDARY: CAUSES OF SEPARATION, SHIFT FACTORS AND CHANGES FROM THE 9TH TO 20TH CENTURIES
The article is dedicated to considering the Breton linguistic boundary, which an imaginary line divided the French region of Brittany to Breton and Romance zones for a long time. Special attention is paid to the shift causes of the Breton area to the West, as well as the general historical context of Breton language supplantation out of the communicative space of the region. The author considers the milestone stages of the Breton linguistic boundary change and comes to the conclusion that now it finds its expression in the difference of toponymy, traditions and regional variants of the French language of the region.
Keywords: the Breton linguistic boundary, the language situation in Brittany, the Breton language, the Gallo language, diglossia, the Celtic linguistic area, the Romanic linguistic area
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Issue: 10, 2013
Series of issue: Issue 10
Rubric: GERMANIC AND ROMAN LANGUAGES
Pages: 84 — 88
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