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		+	* Roparz Hemon (translated by Michael Everson) (2007) ''Breton Grammar''  (Cathair na Mart: Evertype) ISBN: 978-1-904808-11-4
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Contents 1 General 1.1 Language summary 1.2 Linguistic notes 1.2.1 Writing 2 Linguistic resources 2.1 Overview 2.2 Grammar 2.3 Lexicon 2.3.1 Topical word lists 2.3.1.1 Names 2.4 Monographs 2.5 Linguistic portals and bibliographies 3 Data Sources 3.1 Monolingual Text 3.1.1 News 3.1.2 Blogs 3.2 Parallel Text 3.3 Speech 3.4 Video 3.5 IPR notes 4 Portals 5 Tools and Other NLP Resources 6 Miscellaneous 7 Articles

General

Language summary

2010-04-7

• ISO 639-3 code: bre
• Population:
  • 500,000 in France (1989 International Committee for the Defense of the Breton Language).
  • 1,200,000 know Breton who do not regularly use it.
  • Population total all countries: 500,045.
  • 188,568 people (Ya d'ar brezhoneg, 2010)
• Also spoken in: -
• Alternate names: -
• Dialects: Leoneg (Leonais), Tregerieg (Tregorrois), Gwenedeg (Vannetais), Kerneveg (Cornouaillais).
• Classification: Indo-European, Celtic, Insular, Brythonic

Linguistic notes

Writing

• Omniglot: Breton

Linguistic resources

Overview

Grammar

• Ian Press (1986) A Grammar of Modern Breton (Mouton Grammar Library) ISBN: 978-3-110105-79-7
• Roparz Hemon (translated by Michael Everson) (2007) Breton Grammar (Cathair na Mart: Evertype) ISBN: 978-1-904808-11-4

Lexicon

• (GFDL) Breton Wiktionary :: Rummad:Brezhoneg
• (GFDL) French Wiktionary :: Catégorie:breton
• (GFDL) English Wiktionary :: Category:Breton

• (GPL) Le Geriadur Tomaz (Breton--French)

Topical word lists

Names

Monographs

Linguistic portals and bibliographies

Data Sources

Monolingual Text

• EMILLE ONLY FOR: Bengali, Panjabi, Tamil, and Urdu EMILLE corpus. Approximately NUMBERS HERE words. Free license for non-profit research use. Documentation

News

• Agence Bretagne Presse
• Bremaik (weekly news articles)

Blogs

Parallel Text

• EMILLE corpus. ONLY FOR: Bengali, Panjabi, Tamil, and Urdu 200,000 words of text in English (information leaflets from the UK Government and various local authorities) with Breton translation. Free license for non-profit research use.
• MultiKulti Langs listed: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Somali, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Urdu.
  PROB. SAME AS EMILLE BUT NOT ALL UNICODE. DON'T USE FOR EMILLE LANGUAGES (Bengali, Panjabi, Tamil, and Urdu). : 200k words from UK government leaflets (not news). Free for research, see license. However, some of the files are in PDF and present encoding problems when the text is copied.
  • In general, a document with /__/ in its pathname will have an English counterpart with /en/.
  • pamphlets (PDF), e.g. http://www.multikulti.org.uk/__/education/welcome-to-your-library/public-libraries.pdf
  • The Breton directory lists directories that contain Breton pages, though not all of the pages are in Breton.
  • The Breton racial discrimination directory contains about a dozen pp. in Breton.

Speech

Video

IPR notes

Portals

Tools and Other NLP Resources

Miscellaneous

Articles

• Tyers, F. M. (2009) "Rule-based augmentation of training data in Breton–French statistical machine translation ". Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT09. pp. 213—218