April 15, 2009 · Field note

Les Enfants Bretons

There is an increased interest in the suppressed indigenous languages of France. the photo above show two children from the village of Kervallon in Brittany, where their parents farm their ancestral land. Bretons are celtic speaking but the language has faded in the last sixty years or so. Lately la langue Bretonne is

Les Enfants Bretons
Originally from The Physician Anthropologist archive

There is an increased interest in the suppressed indigenous languages of France. the photo above show two children from the village of Kervallon in Brittany, where their parents farm their ancestral land. Bretons are celtic speaking but the language has faded in the last sixty years or so. Lately la langue Bretonne is being reintroduced in Bretagne schools and these twolearn their ancestral language in their primary school. Hopefully this is the begining of a resurgence like it happened to Welsh in Wales, to which Breton Language is linguistically related. 

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