Bretonese - Revision history

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	* Spirantisation: ''i feñ'' "her head", ''tri çad'' "three dads", ''ter haç'' "three cats".		* Spirantisation: ''i feñ'' "her head", ''tri çad'' "three dads", ''ter haç'' "three cats".
	* Nasalisation: ''no ngreg'' "nine women", ''i Marselen'' "in Barcelona"		* Nasalisation: ''no ngreg'' "nine women", ''i Marselen'' "in Barcelona"

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Consonant Mutations

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Consonant Mutations

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Consonant Mutations

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Consonant Mutations

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	Lenited ''g'' becomes ''v'' before words in ''go-, gu-'', e.g. ''[[Contionary:gou\|gou]]'' "smith" → ''i vou'' "his smith", ''[[Contionary:gur\|gur]]'' "man, husband" → ''i vur'' "his husband".		Lenited ''g'' becomes ''v'' before words in ''go-, gu-'', e.g. ''[[Contionary:gou\|gou]]'' "smith" → ''i vou'' "his smith", ''[[Contionary:gur\|gur]]'' "man, husband" → ''i vur'' "his husband".

			Lenited ''d'' becomes ''y'' before words in ''de-, di-'', e.g. ''[[Contionary:dey\|dey]]'' "day" → ''i yey'' "his day", ''[[Contionary:dill\|dill]]'' "method, way" → ''i yill'' "his method".

	Examples:		Examples:

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Consonant Mutations

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	===Sound Changes===		===Sound Changes===
	====Consonant Mutations====		====Consonant Mutations====
	As with all modern Celtic languages, Bretonese makes extensive use of initial consonant mutations to help signal grammatical and syntactic information. Bretonese has three main mutations: '''lenis''' (''[[Contionary:meyel\|meyel]]''), '''spirant''' (''[[Contionary:cravel\|cravel]]'') and '''nasal''' (''[[Contionary:~~truinel~~\|~~truinel~~]]'').		As with all modern Celtic languages, Bretonese makes extensive use of initial consonant mutations to help signal grammatical and syntactic information. Bretonese has three main mutations: '''lenis''' (''[[Contionary:meyel\|meyel]]''), '''spirant''' (''[[Contionary:cravel\|cravel]]'') and '''nasal''' (''[[Contionary:troinel\|troinel]]'').

	The changes caused by the mutations are summarised in the following table.		The changes caused by the mutations are summarised in the following table.

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Consonant Mutations

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Sound Changes

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Vowels & Diphthongs

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	===Vowels & Diphthongs===		===Vowels & Diphthongs===
	~~Bretonesecan be described as having two groups of vowel sounds:~~		The monophthongs are represented by the following inventory:
	~~# the open vowels, which arose from historically short vowels~~
	~~# the close vowels, which arose from historically long vowels~~
	~~# the diphthongs~~

	The ~~open and close vowels~~ are represented by the following inventory:

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	Bretonese (''breçoneix'') {{IPA\|/breˈθoneʃ/}} is a Brittonic Celtic tongue spoken in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia, Asturias and in northern Portugal. It is spoken by 30% of the population in ~~all territories~~. Of these, 75% are in Spain and the remainder in Portugal and in diaspora communities.		Bretonese (''breçoneix'') {{IPA\|/breˈθoneʃ/}} is a Brittonic Celtic tongue spoken in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia, Asturias and in northern Portugal. It is spoken by 30% of the population in these areas. Of these, 75% are in Spain and the remainder in Portugal and in diaspora communities.

	==Phonology and Orthography==		==Phonology and Orthography==