Fun fact; I almost emigrated to Canada some thirty years ago, and my interest was to do postgraduate studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
As things have turned out, I ended up meeting a good friend here in Melbourne who heralds from said city.
Yes, the French did have a policy of deliberately sidelining and even preventing the use of Breton. Not helped by the fact that for centuries the Breton nobles preferred French (or some variety thereof) to the language of the subjects.
Mind you, there is plenty of things that irks me about Breton grammar, but they are the usual things about European languages (gendered nouns, inconsistent conjugation of verbs etc). In my mind I have often dreamed of an "Celtic Esperanto". It would take me years of course to develop such a thing.
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As things have turned out, I ended up meeting a good friend here in Melbourne who heralds from said city.
Yes, the French did have a policy of deliberately sidelining and even preventing the use of Breton. Not helped by the fact that for centuries the Breton nobles preferred French (or some variety thereof) to the language of the subjects.
Mind you, there is plenty of things that irks me about Breton grammar, but they are the usual things about European languages (gendered nouns, inconsistent conjugation of verbs etc). In my mind I have often dreamed of an "Celtic Esperanto". It would take me years of course to develop such a thing.