Breton
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Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, a region in northwestern France, by a remaining community of native speakers. It matters as a significant example of Europe's endangered linguistic heritage and efforts to preserve languages distinct from dominant national languages like French.
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Breton is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still in use on the European mainland.
Breton is an Insular Celtic language that was brought from Great Britain to Brittany by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages, which makes Breton most closely related to Cornish, another Southwestern Brittonic language. Welsh and the extinct Cumbric, both Western Brittonic languages, are more distantly related, and the Goidelic languages (Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic) have a slight connection due to their origins being from Insular Celtic.
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