Lengas (Nov 2019)
Breton et phonographie
Abstract
What is nowadays essential, when speaking about France's languages, is how to transmit them oraly. And many of them are not on the market place any more. Despite the last inquiry presenting a brittophon population of 206,000 speakers, it was also noticed that more than 80% of them are over 60 years old. The quick fall of the number of speakers in the next years is thus to be expected. Although there are about 18,000 pupils in the bilingual schools today, the sistem is not able to form 200 bachelors every year. So, how does the written Breton perform in that context ? Is it a help or an obstacle for a good pronunciation ? Did Bretons worked enough on the phonographic problem ? Did they measure well enough the influence of the french substrat, its dynamics and its phonology in the background ? Did they measure well enough the Buben effect ? We shall present this study concerning the link between the orthography and the spoken Breton by studying the question of passing from the written language to the spoken one, questionning the quality of the latter after reading.
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