Kerbléhan long house

Diploma

Diploma spring 2024

The language of the long house

Last spring, I spent a few months in Brittany. I went to play boulioù (a local boule game) with the town’s elders when they started sharing their regret of no longer speaking their mother tongue: Breton. I found this testimony touching and absurd: to think that in just 50 years, the language that everyone spoke was forgotten by all.


I have always been interested in this ancient language. It was the mother tongue of my grandpar-ents, the one they used every day, the one my mom understood but never learned, the one I only heard a few times during meetings with elders. The one future generations probably will never hear.

The language of the long house

About

Summary

Author

Related course

Building(s) involved

Components involved

Research material

Deliverables