Breakthrough For The Breton Language - French Assembly Adopts Law to Protect and Promote Regional Languages

From The Celtic Language News:

"This small victory is perhaps the expression of a more profound ideological shift in French society. Today, few understand the government’s obsession for maintaining a hierarchy between languages. The most evident discriminations toward minority languages are deemed unfair and the more the State mistreats these languages, the more support they gain within the population."

According to the Endangered Languages Network (ELN) the Celtic language of Brittany is a severely endangered language due to decades of suppression at the hands of the French educational system. Today the number of Breton speakers is roughly 210,000, although estimates vary: “Historical suppression of the Breton language at the hands of Paris has been was extreme to the point that parents were not allowed to name their children with Breton names until 1993. “

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