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Breton JAF Part 1: Introduction It also makes clear that Bretons, if they can be seen as a single people, have been in conflict to some degree with the French--if indeed they are a people--off and on for considerably more than a millenium. When I fight for the right of the Breton people to express themselves, I fight for all the little peoples of the world, who, although less rich and unarmed, are the equals of the great powers. The various styles of Breton music that Stivell draws on, and the various styles he has helped create, are often linked in one way or another to the other Celtic countries. pobox.upenn.edu /~teachnet/Bretonjaf/bretonjaf1.html   (2283 words)

soc.culture.breton All topics for discussion relevant to the Breton people are appropriate but would include, not exclusively: Breton Language and its survival Breton History Breton Literature, Music and Art Breton customs and traditions The primary languages of soc.culture.breton will be Breton, English and French. All topics for discussion relevant to the Breton people are appropriate but would include, not exclusively: Breton Language and its survival Breton History Breton Liturature, music and art Breton customs and traditions The primary languages of soc.culture.breton will be Breton, English and French. Alain Cedelle This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the unmoderated newsgroup soc.culture.breton RATIONALE: soc.culture.breton There is a need for a forum where people all over the world can exchange information about Breton culture and Brittany. www.faqs.org /usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.breton   (2283 words)

Cape Breton Councils Eskasoni First Nation is located in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, with a population of 2865 people, of whom 349 live off-reserve, according to DIAND, December/96. Membertou First Nation is located in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, with a population of 805 people, of whom 236 live off-reserve, according to DIAND, December/95. Chapel Island First Nation is located in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, with a population of 453 people, 92 of whom live off-reserve, according to DIAND, March/96. www.uccb.ns.ca /mikmaq/cbcouncils.html   (223 words)

Learn more about Folk music in the online encyclopedia. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. This emphasizes the universality of people's love for music (which folk music also attests), and aptly expresses Armstrong's warm personal connection to his audience, but it also misses a distinction. It was around Victorian times that the common people of the Western world were offered music as a commodity which they could purchase, for example, in the phenomenon of Music Hall. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /f/fo/folk_music.html   (223 words)

Celtic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Breton today is spoken by more than 500,000 people in Brittany, most of whom are bilingual, speaking also French. Breton is by no means descended from ancient Gaulish, but rather from the Celtic dialects taken by Welsh and Cornish immigrants from the British Isles who were fleeing Germanic invasions and found refuge in Armorica (now French Brittany) in the 5th and 6th cent. A.D. Surviving literary documents in Breton go back only as far as the 15th cent., but the earlier stages of the language are known through glosses and proper names (see Breton literature). www.bartleby.com /65/ce/Celticla.html   (223 words)

Canadian Foreign Policy: Priorities and Principles Cape Bretoners, like the rest of Canada, are a caring people. Cape Bretoners need to realize that what happens in our world affects all of us. Our country’s policies abroad affect how others see us as Canadians, placing us either in a situation where we are seen as good, friendly, generous people, or one in which we are seen as evil people who refuse to help others. faculty.uccb.ns.ca /cis/cis1.htm   (4656 words)

Capital News Online Top Story Acadians don't want to be moved again So, according to the electoral boundary rules, each riding must have as close to 72,000 people as possible to be considered equal. The changes were made when the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission discovered there were 35 per cent more people in Acadie-Bathurst than in Miramichi. "At the electoral commission hearings, there were over 25 people opposed to the change,” says NDP riding president Emilien Savoie. www.carleton.ca /jmc/cnews/26092003/n3print.shtml   (1089 words)

BRETON Find graves of people named BRETON at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know). people with the surname BRETON found in the MyFamily People Finder search. Search the BRETON Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available). www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/B/BRETON.htm   (73 words)

BRETON Find graves of people named BRETON at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know). people with the surname BRETON found in the MyFamily People Finder search. Search the BRETON Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available). www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/B/BRETON.htm   (73 words)

CONTEXT: Mary Ann Caws, Reading André Breton Breton refers, in his Interviews, for this idea to Helvetius, writing about "the superiority of impassioned people to people with common sense." Breton was a dealer in art objects, particularly African, and the Surrealists were all passionate about the kind of bearing an object in the external world could have on their imagination, or on their inner world. Breton's notion of the "femme-enfant," the child-woman who combines in herself opposite ages so that time "holds no sway over her" is important beyond the notion of time. www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no11/Caws.html   (73 words)

Celtic Culture > Languages > Gallo, language of Brittany While the Breton language is spoken in western Brittany and belongs to the family of Celtic languages, the Gallo language is spoken in eastern Brittany and belongs to the family of Romance languages. Gallo was replaced by French as the language of record and the courts, leading progressively to a situation of diglossia where French became language of the dominant minority and Gallo and Breton remained the unofficial languages of the majority. However, Gallo was always Brittany's most spoken language as it was the native tongue of the eastern half of the Breton peninsula, including the Duchy's main population centres and the capital cities of Nantes and Rennes. www.celtia.info /culture/languages/gallo.html   (955 words)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE: CAPE BRETON IN TRANSITION ~ CAPE BRETON'S MUSIC Music in Cape Breton originated in the home where mothers sang their children to sleep and people of the community gathered to help out with seasonal chores, the completion of which would inevitably lead to a party. Not because all Cape Breton music is derived from traditional Scottish tunes, played on traditional Scottish instruments, or sung in a language that most Scots no longer understand, but because the Scot's love of music has become manifest in the performance. Music is as renewable a resource as there is, as long as people play and pass it on. fortress.uccb.ns.ca /Search/Proc95_9.htm   (955 words)

ICDBL, Breton Language, Celtic Language of Brittany, France, Breton Music The ICDBL was founded by and continues to count on the support of NON-Bretons, as well as people of Breton heritage living throughout the world, who testify to the international concern for the future of the Breton language. Your membership in the ICDBL sends a clear signal to the people of Brittany and to the world that the future of the Breton language is a cause with international support. The Breton language is no longer forbidden in schools or hidden totally from public view, but France continues to withhold the resources necessary for its development as a healthy living language. www.breizh.net /icdbl/saozg   (519 words)

Breton Coat of Arms They were akin to their Welsh neighbors to the north, who also spoke a Brythonic Celtic language, and they were the root stock of the Breton people, who settled in Brittany in northwestern France in the 4th century. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Widow Breton and son who settled in Charles Town S.C. in 1732; J. Breton settled in New Orleans in 1820; Elizabeth Breton settled in New York in 1820. Cornwall was originally home to a people known as the Dumnonians, who were comprised of three tribes of ancient Britons known as the Veniti, the Curiovolitae, and the Asismii. www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/breton-coat-arms.htm   (1328 words)

Cape Breton Regional Municipality Located on the eastern side of Cape Breton Island, one of the most scenic islands in the world, the CBRM covers a total area of 2,470 square kilometers and currently has a population of 109,330 people. Our site conveys, both directly and using links to relevant sources of information provided by other organizations, an overview of our region, our people, and the services that we provide as a local government. www.cbrm.ns.ca   (160 words)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE: CAPE BRETON IN TRANSITION ~ CAPE BRETON'S MUSIC Music in Cape Breton originated in the home where mothers sang their children to sleep and people of the community gathered to help out with seasonal chores, the completion of which would inevitably lead to a party. Not because all Cape Breton music is derived from traditional Scottish tunes, played on traditional Scottish instruments, or sung in a language that most Scots no longer understand, but because the Scot's love of music has become manifest in the performance. The music of Cape Breton that has gained the most attention, to this point, is that which is recognized as having a Celtic history. fortress.uccb.ns.ca /search/Proc95_9.htm   (160 words)

Scots Around the World: Scots in Cape Breton Since then, people of Scottish descent have made up a significant proportion of the province's population, and the Scottish presence is perhaps most strongly felt in Cape Breton. The highlands and coastal wilderness in Cape Breton are said to be strikingly similar to the Scottish Highlands. Cape Breton is the highland heart of Nova Scotia. www.tartans.com /articles/capebreton.html   (160 words)

CJNews Similar ceremonies were held in other Atlantic communities, including St. John's, Nfld.; Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton, N.B.; and, for the first time, in Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. The evening included an original dramatic presentation titled We Fought Back, performed by local young people and directed by Shirley Schildkraut and Shoah remembrance committee chair Fuzzy Teitelbaum, as well as several readings. OTTAWA - The annual Holocaust memorial service this year served as an opportunity to recognize bonds with people of different backgrounds. www.cjnews.com /pastissues/00/may11-00/front4a.htm   (738 words)

Cape Breton Regional Municipality Located on the eastern side of Cape Breton Island, one of the most scenic islands in the world, the CBRM covers a total area of 2,470 square kilometers and currently has a population of 109,330 people. Our site conveys, both directly and using links to relevant sources of information provided by other organizations, an overview of our region, our people, and the services that we provide as a local government. The CBRM is the second largest municipality in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. www.cbrm.ns.ca /portal   (169 words)

Breton language, alphabet and pronunciation Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany (Breizh) by about 600,000 people, half of whom use it on a daily basis. Breton is closely related to Welsh and particularly to Cornish, though these languages are not mutually intelligible. Breton can be heard on a number of radio stations for a few hours a week and there is a weekly one-hour TV programme in Breton. www.omniglot.com /writing/breton.htm   (169 words)

Breton language, alphabet and pronunciation Breton is a Celtic language spoken mainly in Brittany (Breizh) by about 365,000 people, about 240,000 of whom speak it fluently. Breton is closely related to Cornish and less closely related to Welsh, though these languages are not mutually intelligible. Breton can be heard on a number of radio stations for a few hours a week and there is a weekly one-hour TV programme in Breton. www.omniglot.com /writing/breton.htm   (529 words)

§10. Breton Lays. XIII. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 There is nothing wrong in the description of it as a “Breton lay,” for it is wholly such a tale as the Bretons, and many other people, might have told without any suggestion from Greek or Latin. But the Breton lays are nearer than other romances to the popular beliefs out of which romantic marvels are drawn, and they retain something of their freshness. Moreover there is something in them of that romantic mystery which is less common in medieval literature than modern readers generally suppose; it is not often to be found in the professional fiction of the Middle Ages. www.bartleby.com /211/1310.html   (529 words)

§10. Breton Lays. XIII. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 There is nothing wrong in the description of it as a “Breton lay,” for it is wholly such a tale as the Bretons, and many other people, might have told without any suggestion from Greek or Latin. But the Breton lays are nearer than other romances to the popular beliefs out of which romantic marvels are drawn, and they retain something of their freshness. “Breton lays” have been mentioned; the name meant for the English a short story in rime, like those of Marie de France, taken from Celtic sources. www.bartleby.com /211/1310.html   (354 words)

Breton - Language Directory Various polls indicate that about 450,000 people understand Breton, 300,000 of whom also speak the language. The dialects of Breton identified by the Ethnologue are Leonais, Tregorrois, Vannetais, and Cornouaillais. Breton is not an official language of France, although there is a strong nationalistic movement demanding recognition, a place in the schools, media, and public life. language-directory.50webs.com /languages/breton.htm   (178 words)

U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - France: Background At the beginning of World War I, in the Breton speaking parts of Brittany, some 900,000 people spoke only Breton, some 400,000 were bilingual and 50,000 did not speak Breton at all. Breton, or Brezhoneg, is an indigenous Celtic language spoken mainly in the West of Brittany, but also in the cities of the Eastern part, called Upper Brittany. The exclusion of Breton from the media, administration and education caused that Breton is a threatened language at present. www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=59&TID=2   (1530 words)

Celtic Language Resources Language is actually an afterthought here, but people can guide one to resources, and several I think know something of the language. Kernewek / Cornish/ The language of KERNOW or CORNWALL Cymraeg / Welsh/ The language of CYMRU or WALES www.candledark.net /silver/celtlang.html   (1612 words)

4.2.html It is obvious to most people familiar with the dance culture of Cape Breton Island that the art of step-dancing is alive and well, and, like so many of our cultural treasures and initiatives, step- dance has an impact on Cape Breton's cultural history and tradition, island identity, social cohesion and the economy. Cape Bretoners believe that the Gaelic language of the Island has a place in the Outer Hebrides as is the case with the Scottish violin music of Cape Breton. However, after many visits to Cape Breton, and after many discussions about this lively art form, Flora took it upon herself to do some research in her own country and as a result, she was satisfied that step-dance was very much a part of the traditional culture of the Scottish highlands. www.ibiblio.org /gaelic/Albanuadh/4.2.html   (2394 words)

FranceKeys.com ® 63% of French people consider themselves Roman Catholics, while 30% do not claim a religion. The official language of France is French, but there is a long list of regional languages and variations, including Alsatian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, and Occitan. Among the jewels of French haute couture are the houses of Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel, Dior, Lacroix, and Givenchy. www.francekeys.com /english/general/culture.shtml   (666 words)

i1.html Cornish is a Celtic language, associated with Welsh and Breton as one of the Brythonic languages within the orthodox, but problematic, linguistic typologies. It would appear that in the face of the Anglo Saxon invasion many of the Cornish people chose to migrate to Brittany where the Celtic Church had been active during and immediately after the Roman period. Cornish has no legal status and, as with other minority languages in the U.K., the government resists arguments to give minority language groups official status, arguing that language use will not gain by legislation and the conferring of official status, but rather will derive from the facilitating and enabling process. www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/cornic/an/i1/i1.html   (1596 words)

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