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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