Remarques sur le breton parlé à Plaudren

Abstract

Situated on the fringes of the Breton area, Plaudren (Morbihan) is a rural commune of 1,600 inhabitants located 16 km north of Vannes on the edge of the Landes de Lanvaux moorlands. Breton is used very little in Plaudren today. The corpus for the study comprised recordings of several members of my family, most of whom had lived their whole lives in Plaudren. It included two types of interviews: ‘life stories’ from the informants born before the First World War and translated sentences from the younger informants (born in the 1920s and 1930s). The aim was to identify some specific features of the Plaudren dialect, in particular: conjugations and their respective importance in the Plaudren dialect, forms of the verb ‘to be’ (use of ema and bez) and form of the verb ‘to be’ in the 3rd person present indicative.

Keywords

• Plaudren (Morbihan)
• vannetais
• Breton (language)
• grammar
• dialectology