• In the language itself: Brezhoneg
• ISO 639-3 standard: bre

• Classification: Indo-European → Celtic → Celtiberian → Nuclear Celtic → TGB Celtic → Insular Celtic → Brythonic → Southwestern Brythonic → Breton
• For more information, see bret1244 at Glottolog

Breton has known many ortographies, and Breton has been written since the 6th Century¹⁾. In the 20th century, several orthographies were produced to try encompass the regional variations an/or to create a universal spelling:

• 1941:Peurunvan('totally unified')/zedacheg (for digraph zh)/KLTGw (the four variety's initials).
• 1954: Orthographie Universitaire
• 1970: Etrerannyezhel (‘interdialectal’)

Peurunvan remains the most popular in use^{2) 3)}.

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Breton is not covered under the Charter for Regional and Minority Languages as France has signed, but has not ratified the the Charter.

• The Loi Deixonne of 1951 allowed Breton into the schools on a voluntary basis for one hour a week.
• The Circulaire Savary (82-621) of 1982 allowed the teaching of regional languages rom nursery schools to university, inside the school system for a few hours per week, and allowing bilingual programmes.

14,710 children (corresponding to 2.4% of school children in Brittany) will be learning Breton 2012 and 2013, opposed to 5 children in 1985. Few learners reach a reasonable level of fluency. ⁴⁾

Since 1977, there is a bilingual school network, Diwan, which teaches by language immersion, and teaches Breton only in the first years of education. The Diwan schools do not receive state financial support. ⁵⁾

• Wikitongues lesson in numbers and phrases
• Wikiversity language lessons
• Ni a gomz brezhoneg, a Breton-English learning book made available online
• Endangered languages with Breton resources
• Learn Breton Online
• Edu Breizh (website in Breton)

Read more about Breton language education in Mercator's Regional Dossier (2019).