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Originally Posted by Carnyx
So after several centuries, you think there hasn't been enough time for a Gallo identity to born and make Eastern Bretons care for their traditional language?
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I don't think that there is a
Gallo identity stricto sensu, separated from the general notion of
Breton identity.
We should better talk about "Upper Brittany" or "Roman Brittany" in this case : after all, "Gallo" only means "French" or "Frenchified/Gallicized" in Breton. Brittany has always been bi-cultural, and it would be sensless IMO, to separate the Celtic and the Roman part of this country.
But the problem is that the Breton nationalist movement always concentrated of the Celtic part of Brittany concerning the cultural side, but they still talked about the whole country in their projects of independence. I think that if they wanted an all-Breton Brittany, they should have concentrate their effort to create a nationalism made specifically for Lower-Brittany (
Breiz Izel) i.e the Brythonic Brittany. But in fact, Breton nationalism has never really been an
ethnic nationalism, but rather an "historical" one.
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Originally Posted by Youenn
Why this ? The Breton language became after some decades the lingua franca in the Breton movement (cultural and politic). Gallo reminds for people may be the frenchization and contrary to the Scot in Scotland, he never had an importance like it (the Scot).
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It is the
lingua franca of the Breton movement, but in Brittany and even within the
Emsav, all the Bretons speak French now. For exemple, even in the forum of a movement like "
Adsav", most of the messages are in French.
Another fact is that French was also a language used in Brittany before the French annexion.
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Originally Posted by Youenn
And after all, I will not blame eastern Breton who try to revive the "celticity" in eastern Brittany with the Breton, their old language before the romanization was near to Briton. It's not like it was a kind of "Celtic imperialism".
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Yes, but like Carnyx said, I'm afraid it is only because Breton is more "fashion" than Gallo.