Breton Language
The Office participates in the promotion of Breton courses for adults. For the year 1998-1999, it has published an approach of the effectives of Breton courses for adults: 9,300 adults have followed a course (e.g. evening courses, correspondence). 6,700 have followed courses, of which 1,200 in Upper Brittany (550 in Ille-et-Vilaine and 462 in Loire-Atlantique). 165 organizations organise evening courses in Brittany and 28 outside Brittany (of which 15 in the region of Paris).
In 2003, the Office published a road map of Brittany in the Breton language (The map includes Loire-Atlantique).
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Famous quotes containing the words breton and/or language:
“Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.”
—André Breton (1896–1966)
“It is impossible to dissociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three things: the sequence of phenomena on which the science is based; the abstract concepts which call these phenomena to mind; and the words in which the concepts are expressed. To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality.”
—Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794)