Editing Breton language (section)

==Geographic distribution and dialects==
[[File:Breton dialectes-en.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|Dialects of Breton]]

Breton is spoken mainly in Lower Brittany, but also in a more dispersed way in Upper Brittany (where it is spoken alongside [[Gallo language|Gallo]] and French), and in areas around the world that have Breton emigrants.

The four traditional dialects of Breton correspond to medieval bishoprics rather than to linguistic divisions. They are {{lang|br|leoneg}} ({{lang|fr|léonard}}, of the [[Viscounty of Léon|county of Léon]]), {{lang|br|tregerieg}} ({{lang|fr|[[Trégorrois Breton dialect|trégorrois]]}}, of [[Trégor]]), {{lang|br|kerneveg}} ({{lang|fr|cornouaillais}}, of {{lang|fr|[[Cornouaille]]}}), and {{lang|br|[[gwenedeg]]}} ({{lang|fr|vannetais}}, of [[Vannes]]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Celtic-languages#toc74852|title=Celtic languages|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2017-09-18}}</ref> {{lang|fr|Guérandais}} was spoken up to the beginning of the 20th century in the region of [[Guérande]] and [[Batz-sur-Mer]]. There are no clear boundaries between the dialects because they form a [[dialect continuum]], varying only slightly from one village to the next.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Breton Orthographies and Dialects: The Twentieth-century, Vol. 2|last=Wmffre|first=Iwan|publisher=Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften|year=2008|isbn=978-3039113651|pages=3}}</ref> {{lang|br|[[Gwenedeg]]}}, however, requires a little study to be intelligible with most of the other dialects.<ref name=kergoat>Kergoat, Lukian. [https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC&pg=PA250 "Breton Dialects" in ''Celtic Culture'', pp. 250 ff]. ABC-CLIO ([[Santa Barbara, California|Sta. Barbara]]), 2006.</ref>

[[File:Municipal_electronic_information_sign_in_Breton_in_Carhaix.jpg|thumb|Electronic information sign in Breton, [[Carhaix]]]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Distribution of Breton speakers by region<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fr.brezhoneg.bzh/46-situation-de-la-langue.htm#par1660 |title=Situation de la langue |last=EOLAS |website=Office Public de la Langue Bretonne |language=fr}}</ref>
!scope="col"| Region 
! scope="col"|Population 
!scope="col"| Number of speakers
!scope="col"| Percentage of speakers
|-
!scope="row"| Basse Bretagne
| 1,300,000 || 185,000 || 14.2%
|-
!scope="row"| Centre Ouest Bretagne
| 112,000 || 20,000 || 20%
|-
!scope="row"| Trégor-Goelo
| 127,000 || 25,000 || 20%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Brest
| 370,000 || 40,000 || 11%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Cornouaille
| 320,000 || 35,000 || 11.5%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Lorient
| 212,000 || 15,000 || 7.3%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Vannes
| 195,000 || 11,000 || 5.5%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Guingamp
| 76,000 || 12,000 || 17%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Morlaix
| 126,000 || 15,000 || 12%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de St Brieuc
| 191,000 || 5,000 || 3%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Pontivy
| 85,000 || 6,500 || 8%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays d'Auray
| 85,000 || 6,500 || 7.6%
|-
!scope="row"|Haute Bretagne
| 1,900,000 || 20,000 || 2%
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Rennes
| 450,000 || 7,000 || 1.5%
|-
!scope="row"|Loire-Atlantique
| 1,300,000 || ||
|-
!scope="row"| Pays de Nantes
| 580,000 || 4,000 || 0.8%
|- class="sortbottom"
!scope="row"| TOTAL
|| 4,560,000
| 216,000
|| 4.6%
|}