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:
“Shall we go dance the hay, the hay?
Never pipe could ever play
Better shepherd’s roundelay.”
—Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)
“When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is
taboo’d by anxiety,
I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety;”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)