As a Breton myself, I'm really ashamed that we don't learn our own language in school, the education system here doesn't even promote it as it should. Hep brezhoneg, Breizh ebet.
As a French living in Canada, I'm sorry that the French state has always been condescedant and destructive of other languages/accents part of the French culture, to say the least. It's such a shame, because its diversity is what makes it shine.
As A Welsh speaker and native it's amazing to hear the strange familiarity of the words and sound, lovely music keep this beautiful culture alive forever.
French here, i'm pretty sure the language is recorded in books, and we still have audio records like this, so even if the speaking population dies, they could still re-learn it
@@evryatis9231 It'd be hard though. The only two famous examples of language revival are Cornish and Hebrew, with only the latter being truly successful too.
The Bretons are very angry with their French oppressors for not letting them speak their language. Many other Celts have sufferred the same oppression by the British.
Beautiful song. I am an Irishman, my father lived in Dinan for four years in his 20's during the early 1970's. I have been to Bretagne with him twice, i find it one of the most beautiful places i have ever seen, ancient megaliths, forests, music, the sea, beautiful people and food, castles and very old buildings still remain and nobody knocking them down, all of which i love. Very unique place. We are Celtic cousins. Bail ó dhia ort! -- God be good to you.
Doue zo ganit ! my Celtic cousin. I've been a couple times in Ireland and I've always been enthralled by the beauty of the Emerald Isle, as well as its history. :)
There are private bilingual schools all over Britanny now that teach in french and breton, pretty sure they have a few tens of thousands of students, so there will be a renewal of the breton language. However, it's important to note that only the western half of Britanny spoke Breton. The eastern half spoke a language called Gallo (a romance language) whose number of speakers as dropped as much as breton but that isn't having as much of a revival, there are a few courses in some schools to learn it but not a lot of people do it.
I'm so glad that Breton is having a revival, it's such a beautiful language, but i've never heard of this Gallo language before and it must be very rare to find native speakers, such a shame :,(
@Eru Clusivus yes, french speakers could understand a lot of gallo words, but gallo and french are more different than scots and english but you can still hear some traces of gallo in how some people speak here, especially old people, so maybe people who come from other parts of France would have a harder time understanding. Unfortunately when the french government created all the public schools, they banned all the regional languages from being spoken there so in a matter of 2 or 3 generations they almost completely wiped out most of these languages and dialects although they have gotten laxer and now authorise these languages to be taught ect, now that they aren't popular enough to be a problem.
Probably the reason this sounds like elvish is that Tolkien based Sindarin on Welsh. So really it's not that Breton sounds like elvish, but more that elvish sounds like Breton.
Tolkien did not love all the Celtic languages. He abhorred Gaelic, and French. Breton has to my ears more echoes of the Black Speech of Mordor. Knowing Tolkien, that is probably what I SHOULD be hearing.
Bizarrement, les langues elfiques dans l'imaginaire populaire ont une phonologie dépourvue de nasales et utilisent beaucoup le a ou les consonnes mouillées, non ? Très loin du breton ! Mais oui, le sentiment est compréhensible.
@@wpisznazweuzytkownika as all regional france have a reason to hate the fact that the governement dosen't do anything to preserve the culture and language such as Normand, Picard, Gallo, Occitan and many more. Bretagne aint the only region of France which is the dog in that song
@@zhess4096 yes but probably west armorica was settled yet by breton in year 0. Old location name in brittany are not breton language but look more à kind of gaelic language. So asterix wasnt gaulish. Dna of west breton show no Frank germanic dna. And 2 big migration havent created of war with inhabittant. That is clues which show brittany was yet breton before migration.
@@zhess4096 Gauls are celtics tribes my dude it was the Frank and Romans that brought Germanic and Latin people in France but the original Gauls were Celts
I am Welsh (fluent speaker) and I've begun learning Breton. I love your country and I'm so fascinated by your culture. You have such a beautiful language, your music is so distinctive and inspiring. Your celtic Saints and our Saints have a lot in common - Samson of Dol, St David, St Hoel, St Teilo etc. Keep strong and stay true to yourselves. I love your butter btw 😄
Yes, the 7 founding Saints of Brittany are mostly Welsh and Cornish origin , and in the Breton tradition, all Bretons must make once in their life the Tro Breiz a catholic pilgrimage of 600 kilometers of walk, the pilgrims visiting the relics of the seven founding saints of Brittany in their respective city.
@@johnfrancisdooley6048 That's really interesting. I literally didn't know that until you said, so I did some of my own research. I can see the pilgrimage is around Brittany. I did read that in 2002, they switched to Wales. Do you know what sites they visited? I would image St Davids cathedral being one, but I know Llangyfelach church (Cyfelach and St David's church, Llangyfelach, Swansea to give it its proper title) is along the main route to more western parts of Wales and was founded by St David himself. I wonder if groups of Bretons visited there? I hope it returns to Wales or Cornwall again.
@@chrisrichards7930 Sorry for the late answer, I didn't know that the 2002 Tro Breiz passed through Wales, I can't answer you on the places to visit of these Breton pilgrims, but it's great, and it's a kind of historical logic than visiting the cradle of our holy founders. I can't wait to visiting Wales and Cornwall, it's for soon . You must visit, if you come to Brittany in Carnoet the "Traoñienn ar Sent" the Valley of the Saints, the Valley will eventually include 1000 monumental granit statues 4 meters high representing the founding Saints of Brittany, today there are 170 statues , that incredible. I'm sure we share the origin of most of them with Wales and Cornwall
This language is beautiful, it is a shame how countries like France treat their native linguic minorities. I really hope we see some kind of mass revival of languages like Breton, Occitan, Irish, etc. Governments should stop giving priority to the majority language and treat the other native languages equally. This should be the diversity Europe should be striving for.
Also Aragonese, Leonese, Scottish gaelic, Frisian, etc. Europe does not seem care much about its regional languages, sadly. I hope this will change in the near future.
"Diversity" You're correct. This is the only diversity Europe should have. It's false diversity that has led to the destruction of Europe's cultures. They shouldn't be "equal", they should be independent and speaking the language of their forebears. I say this as an English person, that nobody but the English should be speaking English in Britain! Do we even need a "Britain"? If you care for culture, perhaps you should consider nationalism?
Polish translation below: Zmiażdżeni pod jarzmem szlachty Pełni dumy i pogardy Żyliśmy cicho i z pokorą Przez stulecia w hańbie. Poprzez nasze lasy i wrzosowiska Wiatr Śmierci sieje spustoszenie Jego oddech wieje ze wschodu Są tacy, co pożałują swej doli. Lecz gdy wstanie ten dzień upragniony I gdy wszyscy ludzie zbudzą się Od Gór Arrée aż do Nantes Oswojone psy staną się dzikie.
To dość dziwne podejście biorąc pod uwagę, że właśnie w czasach szlachty Bretonia była swoim autonomicznym regionem z bretońską szlachtą a zostało to zmiaźdżone przez francuski rewolucyjny rząd bo Bretoni byli rojalistami nie godzącymi się na obalenie króla. S
This song is just...wow...the rythm makes it sound like it's some kind of mystical ancient song,like from the Gauls instead of the Bretons. Then the metaphor of the "dogs becoming wild again" is just fire. Huge props from Italy, I hope Breizh and the other Celtic countries can make a linguistical revival
i'm so saddened by the mistreatment of minority languages on our continent, all these celtic languages supressed for centuries, from irish to cornish and breton, and many others like slavic, basque and finnic. i have a new found appreciation for celtic tongues as a romance speaker, they sound truly surreal.
You are not the first, the reason Tolken made a lot of his languages based on Welsh was just an enjoyment of the sound. Sad we might see the day there are more people who can speak those than Welsh
don't blame futur generations for the past from peoples that are dead thousands of years before me, me too i'm saddened that this language isn't spokenand peopels was oppressed for talking that language but i don't even have French encestors either, my mom is Italian and my dad Turkish but left Turkey when he was like 3 to live in Réunion and my mom left Italy when she was 3 too to live in France.
i live in ireland and down the road from where i live there is a old breton lad with a breton flag outside his window he owns a small cottage and a farm
During 17 18 the centuries lot of irish are came in brittany due to starving. But finally we are the same . I m.breton.and dna test say i m 97% irish welsh .
“For the linguistic unity of France, the Breton language must disappear.” -Anatole de Monzie, Minister of Public Education, 1925 That was perhaps one of the darkest quotes I’ve ever read. Killing off and shaming a huge part of a culture like a language all for the sake of some “unity”? Disgusting. Any government that’s done something like that should be ashamed.
Agreed 👍 im from the United States and what you just said basically sums up our whole history. All cultures deserve to thrive free in coexistence from persecution
Yes but their cause as far as separatism is concerned is illegitimate. Making their language survive is another matter and it can be done with will and a bit of money.
A napoleonic american supporting Britanny haha I would have seen everything in my life. We would need a breton Napoléon to win... Thank you by the way. Vive US and Britanny !
@@ufhb6649 there are two words to way dog in breton: "c'has", more derigative if a look to the way they use it, and the normal word for the animal "ki" for exemple the black dog like those of the english and celtic folklore are called in the litteral sense "Ki-du" . I hope it did answered tour question:) Edit: pardon me I haven't read your com properly, i retract what i said!
Even if the language is recorded in books or you have audio records, the language is not going to survive if you keep this passivity to it. French people, it doesn't mind if you aren't from Britanny, don't let a part of your culture die or it will be very late.
@Adrien Lasbleiz Your comment gives hope :) I know and not because you speak a regional language means that you are nationalist or independentist, that's absurd.
@Adrien Lasbleiz Did you ever live in France? Did you ever live in Paris? Because as a proud lorrain living in Paris, I can assure you that nobody is the whore of someone here. Everybody would be interested in talking about your culture, it doesn't matter whether you're from Tahiti or Toulouse, Brest or Ajaccio, Strasbourg or Fort-de-France. You're equally as interesting and you're as worthy as any other French citizen, equality is in our motto. We all have the same ID, we all have the same rights. French people are reluctant to talk about independence thought but independentists in France are often just nationalist that repeat independence without knowing what it implies and with no clear path to achieve it. But of course, you can continue to play the victim you poor exploited thing! You don't even bother to live in your own country as a true patriot to try to improve it, wether you consider your country to be Brittany or France. Emigrants, when it's not for work purpose should not complain about what's happening in the country they choose to left. Sidenote : An independent Brittany would most likely not be a monarchy, with modern time politics. It would most likely do quite the same as the region is doing right know, with roughly the same budget and laws modeled on French laws. The only true difference would be one more border on maps.
At least in old French there is some similar words with French. But here, I recognize no words at all. Even the word "French" is unrecognizable at 1:30 (I suppose its French is "Bro-C'hall").
@Alan Chougny Thanks for the info. I was close. So yeah, I don't understand why people says its like old French. I don't saw any French influence at all on this music.
That's basically what it is, the Kingdom of Bitanny was founded by celts from the British Isles who settled in what is now britanny and eventually they were annexed into France.
I wish from the bottom of my heart that one day, the seven nations may have their freedom, that they would have stable and functional countries, and that the cultures of these nations may be revived and live on forever. Best wishes, Brittany.
The Celtic languages are so beautiful, imagine the alternate timeline where the Celtic peoples still dominated much of Europe and Latins stayed in Italy and Germanics in Northern Germany and Scandanavia. Would be one hell of a different world
@@augustobarbosab.773 I mean they share common root definitely and are closest to each other. There is controversy whether Celtic is false division - and ItaloCeltic branch should instead divide into Goedelic and rest, and only then Italic and continental and Brittish Celtic. Definitely Goedelic and Brittonic Celtic languages are separate for vast amount of time
Alduin the Lord of Dragons some sources say Atmorans and aldmeri, others say nords and alyied. Idk exactly what races though, but probablythe atmorans and alyied since they are closest related to the nords and aldmeri.
It's amazing how you people always find a way to reduce an entire people's national identity to 'something from a Japanese cartoon'. Could you possibly be any more insulting?
A rousing song sung in a beautiful language. Bretons, I wish for power to you within your Nation, a Nation seperate from that of the French. Please always preserve your Celtic heritage, language and music, never let any of it fade away. Respect to Brittany from Wales. Llydaw, Cymru a Chernyw am byth! Breizh, Kembre ha Kerneveur atav!
Im Lebanese and so far from your beautiful lands..but this song touched my heart and soul in ways beyond my understanding..too many tears shed to this proud melody..may i live to see your dreams come true..and i witness the unification and prosperity of a united Celtic Nation..i write this as my country is almost forever gone..solidarity with all freedom-seeking brethren worldwide 🤍🙏🏽
Greetings celtic brothers from wales 🏴 your ancestors came from wales , well cornwall but the cornish people were once apart of wales we split from them at the severn bridge after the saxons pushed us britons (welsh,cornish) west we settled in mordern wales and the other Britons settled in Cornwall and the cornish identity was born , some of them left for brittany and settled there to escape the saxon invasion
@Fan d'Oggy et les cafards Breton is a form of brythonic language it come from the britons (welsh) Cornish is similar because Cornwall and Devon was once known as west wales in 577 ad the Battle of Deorham happened down near mordern day Bristol it resulted in the separation of the Cornish (known as the West Welsh) from the Welsh by the advance of the Saxons. Some of these cornish (west welsh) people fled to brittanny on boats and settled in france thats why I can understand some of the words in this song lot of words similar to welsh
This language needs to be conserved... its sad what the French government is doing to the Brittonic language. However I support Brittany being apart of France the Culture, Language and History should be preserved.
It's very sad that the only way to preserve regional languages in France is being independent or autonomous, officializing minorised languages seems like a very crazy idea for the people and politicians of your country 😔. If someday breton language goes official it would be a dream came true.
@@pyrenaea3019 Yes indeed it is sadly... its because of the Modern Politics in the EU and France's more Radical Left Political views that cause this stuff. At least thats how I see it
@@Benjamin-085 In my country accepting the language and the identity of the minorities is usually seen as a leftist thing but anyway I understand your point
@@pyrenaea3019 everybody can learn anything nowadays, no one is prevented from learning anything in France, so my opinion is if this language does not survive, it will be the fault of the Bretons themselves.
@@Sir77Hill Imagine that you speak a minorised language, all the governments of the country where you live try everything to extinct it, is considered illiterate and the teachers hit you if you speak or write it being forbidden at schools for years. The grandmother of my cousins was hit constantly because of speaking basque and she doesn't want to speak it now because she remembers those times, (there it goes an example). So yes, if the language does not survive is fault of the Bretons themselves.
The French Society and its Future by anonymous author Introduction 1. The French Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the Breton race. They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in advanced counties, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering, in the third world to physical suffering as well, and have inflicted severe damage to the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation, it will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world. It will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering, even in advanced countries.
Lyrics by Yann-Ber Piriou, music by Alan Stivell. Original album : Trema'n Inis" (towards the island), 1976. Performed here by the "Ensemble Vocal du Bout du Monde" on the album Buhez (Life) in 2000.
The desire for freedom and self determination shown by the Basques, Catalans, Bretons, Kurds, and Irish is incredibly powerful and moving. This song in my opinion is the ultimate incarnation not just of the Bretons', but of all these people's righteous struggles for independence.
Do not confuse thing. Kurds try to gain their freedom against the nazi turks withs guns. The catalans have the illusion that they will be free via democracy.
don't compare people whose languages are actually being oppressed with catalans and basques. They are both official languages of Spain, catalan and basque independentist parties are at the "Congreso de los Diputados" and still they claim to be oppressed
@@diprogamer3294 being occupied by a foreign state is a form of oppression. it isn't nearly as intolerable as what the Kurds go through, but it is still oppression nonetheless. they all deserve their own nation.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 as they are both Latin languages, Romanian being around 70% Latin based and French being around 60% Latin, they have a start there. But Romanian has many words taken from French, as an example:"Mersi" as "Thank you" from "merci".
Brittany is made up of 4 Celtic ethnic groups. the Celts of ancient Armorica, the Welsh and the Cornish, immigrants to Brittany who together created the Kingdom of Brittany and the Irish who immigrated in considerable numbers to Brittany
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et surtout aussi les Gallais de Haute-Bretagne qui ont toujours habité près de toute la moitié Est du pays (du côté de Châteaubriant ou Derval, vieilles baronnies bretonnes, on n'a jamais parlé une langue celte là-bas mais le gallais).
They arrived in the VIth-VIIth century as guests and mixed with the local gauls (french). Britanny has never reached more than 50% of bretons speakers in Britanny at any given time in history. They're as legitimate for the land as any other gaullish, French people. However, it would be good if the gov or bretons/French themselves would do more for the language.
@Pierre-Antoine Phélippeau Si on n'a jamais parlé une langue celte en Haute-Bretagne, comment ça se fait qu'on retrouve les villes de Cancale, Dinan, Dinard, Le Pouliguen, Paimbœuf ou encore Guémené-Penfao ?
The first time I heard this language was 30 years ago. The local radio would play a music band named Dao Dezi, whose language was magical to my ears. There was no internet back then, and we had hardly any resources. I spent my childhood wondering what language it was. I learned many years later that it was Breton, and the name of the song was Ti Eliz Iza. What a beautiful language.
This music is heavenly, it really brings me to some other reality and state of mind. Celts are the forgotten ancestors of history. Everyone is with vikings, but I always got fascinated by celtic cultures, they existed from United Kingdom to Turkey! And no movies or series explain who they were. I love your language and your culture! I hope and wish that you preserve it as the treasure it is. I salute you from Barcelona!
Whereas Brittany is just recognised as a mere state within France, but it’s boundaries do not include the historical capital Nantes/Naoned, the southern part of this map in the video
That's not the same thing at all. Bretagne is part of France, we share a close and common, old history and people from all over France build and developed our country France. Welsh on the other hand can leave England and it won't be a huge problem.
My father’s father from the Highlands of Scotland. My mother’s people going back forever from the rocky coasts of Breizh. In our hearts we know who we are and will always be.
Its funny because me and lot of my friends have discovered this song at the same time (We are breton) and we will fight for our culture and langage ! Breton langage will never be forget with us and we will teach him to the childrens !
Bravo à vous ! Je suis français moi même et non Breton (mes origines familiales sont d'Auvergne), mais je crois fondamentale que les européens de France doivent se réapproprient leurs cultures ancestrales ! Bonne continuation à vous !
respect from the Netherlands ! Our Dutch language is getting more and more lost... with nobody paying attention to it ! I will keep on fighting and will continue placing texts in Dutch in public discussions - without mistakes however with pride !
I'm French, but I have ~25% Breton blood. I'm proud that Bretons make so beautiful songs like this. I'm ashamed too of the French governements that tried to assimilate Bretons to French (from the 1870s).
Bretons were French. But 30% of the population didn't know how to speak French. About half the population didn't know bretons. So they were a bit forced like tons of other regions to learn parisian French in the IIIrd Republic to win WW1.
Ethnic rights? For centuries bretons were mix with other french. I can't tell the difference today between a breton and burgundian. There is a breton culture, breton people but there is no such thing as a "breton ethnicity".
@@FoxTrotteur i m breton, i do a dna test in 23andme 98% british irish. 0% french german. 2% italian or iberian. They are not sure. I m more british that majority of people living in great britain. So if breton are not an ethnicity then english are french.
@@bretagnejean2410 Fax, it says “Irish” but it probably is picking up pure briton genes. And most English are German-Briton mix (Saxons) if i’m correct, I believe the French are as well (Frankish/German Gallic mix)
It is the first language that my ears heard and left a lasting impression..... Grandma only spoke Breton. Ashamed not to be able to enjoy and pass it on.
Yes. Brittany economy have collapsed since france take it. Before our economy was turn to channel and uk irish. Now its turn to feed france and paris . Slave region.
The survival of the Celtic languages is vital, imagine the history only told through these languages! If we let them die out it would be unfortunate and sealing away secrets never to be told.
@@ernest9013 presque ne faut pas toute de même abuser. On peu encore l'apprendre et maintenant avec la nouvelle technologie et l'écriture on peu garder le langage. Il y a certes bien sur beaucoup moins de gens qui la parle je l'admets
@@Assmanlicker 🤣 you're either seriously uneducated or trolling, firstly in 2014 the Cornish were granted National minority status, giving us the same national recognition as the Scottish, Welsh and Irish. Also we were a nation long before "England" became a thing. Secondly, do we not have a language? Before you comment and make stupid statements go learn more about the subject you're commenting on. Meur ras, Kernow bys vyken 😉
@@Assmanlicker due to mass slaughter of people that spoke the language (by the English) it was on the brink of extinction - and it's undergoing a major revival, also we're recognised by England and the UK as a national minority so even though you may not think we're "special" we aren't English and that is recognised by law, so as much as you want to call me English it won't work 🤣😉
@@Assmanlicker As a brythonic tongue, what is the Breton language if not some evolved Cornish ? number in Cornish 1 - onan 2 - dew 3 - tri 4 - peswar 5 - pymp 6 - hwegh 7 - seyth 8 - eth 9 - naw 10 - deg Breton 1 - unan 2 - daou 3 - tri 4 - pevar 5 - pemp 6 - c’hwec’h 7 - seizh 8 - eizh 9 - nav 10 - dek Breizh da viken Kernow Bys Vyken
je suis un quart breton et je suis fier d'avoir cette origine j'aime la culture Bretonne, ses paysages, sa gastronomie, sa langue, les personnes qui y vivent,son riche patrimoine culturel, puis son histoire. Bevet Breizh !
I’m a breton descendant in the United States. My surname is associated with this area back to Nominoe, Alan I and more than likely on the tapestry. I don’t know the language or much more than that but understand this song. 🙏
@@Losowynearly all wars in the balkans were caused by people not having their own country (a. k. a. nationalism) my man, do you not know your history ?
@@mariobot128 look at the border clusterfu*k like kosovo and bosnia with their internal Serbian republic You know why these problems exist? Cuz these nations were part of different country for most of their history and no clear borders exist Just imagine how many wars bout these contested areas you would have sooner or later And the nationalism won't exist if you don't let it spread That's why they don't teach you languages that are completely useless aside of traditionalism Why learn another language to communicate with locals, another to communicate everyone else living in france and possibly third to be able to communicate with anyone outside of france? Just for the sake of traditionalism? It's 21st century If you want to learn something you can just try it yourself If kids don't want to learn it now by themselves why do you think they would want it in schools?
As a Breton myself, I'm really ashamed that we don't learn our own language in school, the education system here doesn't even promote it as it should. Hep brezhoneg, Breizh ebet.
You guys should do that. Its a must.
@@JeMeSouvienPu the day French government listens to their people, maybe, yeah.
@@based823 i have no words in that, im a French Quebecers of Bretons origins
As a French living in Canada, I'm sorry that the French state has always been condescedant and destructive of other languages/accents part of the French culture, to say the least. It's such a shame, because its diversity is what makes it shine.
@@Brubarov i mean, canadas doing this to Quebecers too, they also did it with the acadian and the 1st nations
As A Welsh speaker and native it's amazing to hear the strange familiarity of the words and sound, lovely music keep this beautiful culture alive forever.
This is not so strange actually: Bretons are camed in Armorica (actual Brittany) from Cornwall and Wales around the 5th century.
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Chwaer ieithoedd yw'r Lladaweg a'r Gymraeg
But in a pretty song
There is plenty of BBC in Wales, too, the BBC is what unites us.
- Adûnâi
Crushed under the yoke of the high people, full of contempt and pride."
They're talking about the Parisians ofc.
It's always the Parisians
In the Breton language "Parizian" is an insult lol, it means something like arrogant and annoying. You always hear them before you see them.
@@ignacioignogrundinglestheg9089 We say the same about Londoners in the UK. They feed off the country and yet consider themselves the better.
@@ignacioignogrundinglestheg9089 not too far from Parazit :)
@@eleveneleven572 That's honestly just urbanites in general
Protect this language. The demography of Breton speakers is getting older.
Yes
French here, i'm pretty sure the language is recorded in books, and we still have audio records like this, so even if the speaking population dies, they could still re-learn it
@@evryatis9231 It'd be hard though.
The only two famous examples of language revival are Cornish and Hebrew, with only the latter being truly successful too.
BeryAb Don’t forget the Manchus.
@@evryatis9231 it is not the same... I just hope they do not go extinct. One of the celts that did not vanish.
The Bretons are very angry with their French oppressors for not letting them speak their language. Many other Celts have sufferred the same oppression by the British.
The celts are the Britons ( y Mhrydeinwyr )
French are celts too, they're gallo-romans, so ethnically mostly gaullish.
@@teiloturner2760 britons are celts but not all celts are britons.
@B Sell Yes, the English people.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 yes only ethnically but until 19/20th century because of immigration
Beautiful song. I am an Irishman, my father lived in Dinan for four years in his 20's during the early 1970's. I have been to Bretagne with him twice, i find it one of the most beautiful places i have ever seen, ancient megaliths, forests, music, the sea, beautiful people and food, castles and very old buildings still remain and nobody knocking them down, all of which i love. Very unique place. We are Celtic cousins. Bail ó dhia ort! -- God be good to you.
Brittany owes a lot to ireland. We have a lot of irish monk which have spread christianism and create some church.
Doue zo ganit ! my Celtic cousin. I've been a couple times in Ireland and I've always been enthralled by the beauty of the Emerald Isle, as well as its history. :)
@@chrisbreizh29 Ireland owes to Brittany as well, Saint Padraig was taught catechism in Brittany, after all !
The song sounds great,
But as someone who is part French, it feels like listening to this is treason.
@@landong.8218 treason? Seriously. Brittany and bretons are not link to france eternally. Its a submission link , as algeria .
There are private bilingual schools all over Britanny now that teach in french and breton, pretty sure they have a few tens of thousands of students, so there will be a renewal of the breton language. However, it's important to note that only the western half of Britanny spoke Breton. The eastern half spoke a language called Gallo (a romance language) whose number of speakers as dropped as much as breton but that isn't having as much of a revival, there are a few courses in some schools to learn it but not a lot of people do it.
I'm so glad that Breton is having a revival, it's such a beautiful language, but i've never heard of this Gallo language before and it must be very rare to find native speakers, such a shame :,(
@Eru Clusivus yes, french speakers could understand a lot of gallo words, but gallo and french are more different than scots and english but you can still hear some traces of gallo in how some people speak here, especially old people, so maybe people who come from other parts of France would have a harder time understanding.
Unfortunately when the french government created all the public schools, they banned all the regional languages from being spoken there so in a matter of 2 or 3 generations they almost completely wiped out most of these languages and dialects although they have gotten laxer and now authorise these languages to be taught ect, now that they aren't popular enough to be a problem.
@Eru Clusivus famille-madore.fr/gallo.php site with a poem in french and gallo and some vocabulary
As far as I'm concerned, Romance languages don't need another member
The Gaulish language is alive again!
Probably the reason this sounds like elvish is that Tolkien based Sindarin on Welsh. So really it's not that Breton sounds like elvish, but more that elvish sounds like Breton.
Tolkien did not love all the Celtic languages. He abhorred Gaelic, and French. Breton has to my ears more echoes of the Black Speech of Mordor. Knowing Tolkien, that is probably what I SHOULD be hearing.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 Breton isn't gaelic or french, it's brythonic...
@@env0x Yes, but it is quite shocking how different crossing one little channel makes things.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896Proof?
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896But French is a romance language, not celtic...
i'm breton and i speak my langage. We're so proud of our country.
Respect from Cornwall!
vous n'êtes pas la France, vous êtes une victoire de la France, vive la Bretagne 🇫🇷🤝🇫🇷 !
I truly respect you and your country
@Zacker Naner I'm not sure in english but I think it's just "breton language" Or "breton", naturally.
Bevet Breizh va mignon !
Breton is such an intriguing language! I hope it survives...
i had graet fun comparing breton words with welsh words, donv and ddof, chas and ci, and bobl is straight up the same in both langueges.
@@bleddynwolf8463 chas is actually the plural of ki, so it's really close to ci :-)
Ki, a dog? related to ancient greek ho kuon, dog? Celtic is still indo european, no?
@@geertclaeys6209 i mean, maybe?
@@bleddynwolf8463 what does bobl mean? People?
Breton is such a gorgeous language. Sending love from one of your Celtic brothers 🇮🇪
We still have work to do for our own language brother
@@fizziz_1035 absolutely
Trugarez vras 🙏🏻
RESPECT FROM YOUR CELTIC BRETHEREN 🇮🇪🇮🇲🏴🏴
@God Emporor of Florida Rick Scott Latins & Germanics: oops missed a spot!
And Cornwall, I’m not Cornish but...
@@sron-adharcach950 I have no Cornish flag emoji
@@dracodistortion9447 I know, I was just saying.
Don’t forget Galicia!
As a French person, this sounds like I'm listening to some elves who are very angry about me.
haha
Bizarrement, les langues elfiques dans l'imaginaire populaire ont une phonologie dépourvue de nasales et utilisent beaucoup le a ou les consonnes mouillées, non ? Très loin du breton ! Mais oui, le sentiment est compréhensible.
And they have reason...
@@wpisznazweuzytkownika as all regional france have a reason to hate the fact that the governement dosen't do anything to preserve the culture and language such as Normand, Picard, Gallo, Occitan and many more. Bretagne aint the only region of France which is the dog in that song
Half-Elf mate, they are Bretons after all (Elder Scrolls joke)
When Asterix starts beating up Romans
Criminally underrated comment
we do a little punching
Actually, Bretons are related to the Celts who flet Britain from the Anglo Saxons. Not really the Gauls
@@zhess4096 yes but probably west armorica was settled yet by breton in year 0. Old location name in brittany are not breton language but look more à kind of gaelic language. So asterix wasnt gaulish.
Dna of west breton show no Frank germanic dna. And 2 big migration havent created of war with inhabittant. That is clues which show brittany was yet breton before migration.
@@zhess4096 Gauls are celtics tribes my dude it was the Frank and Romans that brought Germanic and Latin people in France but the original Gauls were Celts
I am Welsh (fluent speaker) and I've begun learning Breton. I love your country and I'm so fascinated by your culture. You have such a beautiful language, your music is so distinctive and inspiring. Your celtic Saints and our Saints have a lot in common - Samson of Dol, St David, St Hoel, St Teilo etc. Keep strong and stay true to yourselves. I love your butter btw 😄
You try to work out the lost words? I got many
Yes, the 7 founding Saints of Brittany are mostly Welsh and Cornish origin , and in the Breton tradition, all Bretons must make once in their life the Tro Breiz a catholic pilgrimage of 600 kilometers of walk, the pilgrims visiting the relics of the seven founding saints of Brittany in their respective city.
@@johnfrancisdooley6048 That's really interesting. I literally didn't know that until you said, so I did some of my own research. I can see the pilgrimage is around Brittany. I did read that in 2002, they switched to Wales. Do you know what sites they visited? I would image St Davids cathedral being one, but I know Llangyfelach church (Cyfelach and St David's church, Llangyfelach, Swansea to give it its proper title) is along the main route to more western parts of Wales and was founded by St David himself. I wonder if groups of Bretons visited there? I hope it returns to Wales or Cornwall again.
@@johnfrancisdooley6048 Also I gather St Teilo was important in Llandeilo Fawr, abother pilgrimage site? There's one in Llandaff dedicated to St Teilo
@@chrisrichards7930 Sorry for the late answer, I didn't know that the 2002 Tro Breiz passed through Wales, I can't answer you on the places to visit of these Breton pilgrims, but it's great, and it's a kind of historical logic than visiting the cradle of our holy founders. I can't wait to visiting Wales and Cornwall, it's for soon .
You must visit, if you come to Brittany in Carnoet the "Traoñienn ar Sent" the Valley of the Saints, the Valley will eventually include 1000 monumental granit statues 4 meters high representing the founding Saints of Brittany, today there are 170 statues , that incredible. I'm sure we share the origin of most of them with Wales and Cornwall
This language is beautiful, it is a shame how countries like France treat their native linguic minorities. I really hope we see some kind of mass revival of languages like Breton, Occitan, Irish, etc. Governments should stop giving priority to the majority language and treat the other native languages equally. This should be the diversity Europe should be striving for.
Also Aragonese, Leonese, Scottish gaelic, Frisian, etc. Europe does not seem care much about its regional languages, sadly. I hope this will change in the near future.
I’m more than agree with you
"Diversity"
You're correct. This is the only diversity Europe should have. It's false diversity that has led to the destruction of Europe's cultures.
They shouldn't be "equal", they should be independent and speaking the language of their forebears.
I say this as an English person, that nobody but the English should be speaking English in Britain! Do we even need a "Britain"?
If you care for culture, perhaps you should consider nationalism?
There should be the EU with new borders based on ethnic groups. Britanny should be independent.
Poland seems to care a little bit
They have an entire part of the country for the Kashubians, a minority group.
Love the Bretons
Please stay strong
We will win
Greetings from the Basque Country
Trugarez / eskerrik asko
Who do you want to stay strong if most of them don't even support that idea lol
@@Losowythose who do want a Breton nation.
Russia is with you guys! You should be liberated from the french-masonic imperialism!
Everybody gangsta until the domesticated dogs become wild again 😳
Frenchies better start looking under their bed before sleeping when it happens. :D
😳
Dry comment.
@@chaden9498 just like your humour
@@trzy7265 Wow bro. I got owned.
Polish translation below:
Zmiażdżeni pod jarzmem szlachty
Pełni dumy i pogardy
Żyliśmy cicho i z pokorą
Przez stulecia w hańbie.
Poprzez nasze lasy i wrzosowiska
Wiatr Śmierci sieje spustoszenie
Jego oddech wieje ze wschodu
Są tacy, co pożałują swej doli.
Lecz gdy wstanie ten dzień upragniony
I gdy wszyscy ludzie zbudzą się
Od Gór Arrée aż do Nantes
Oswojone psy staną się dzikie.
Yeah because why not? :)
Dzięki! Chciałbym też poznać odniesienia i kontekst pieśni. Np. dlaczego psy?
@@jakubstaszewski5965 kto wie? pewnie poetyczna tworczosc autora
To dość dziwne podejście biorąc pod uwagę, że właśnie w czasach szlachty Bretonia była swoim autonomicznym regionem z bretońską szlachtą a zostało to zmiaźdżone przez francuski rewolucyjny rząd bo Bretoni byli rojalistami nie godzącymi się na obalenie króla. S
@@szymonlechdzieciol no cóż, wtedy nie było im dobrze, ale potem było jeszcze gorzej. Z deszczu pod rynne
This song is just...wow...the rythm makes it sound like it's some kind of mystical ancient song,like from the Gauls instead of the Bretons. Then the metaphor of the "dogs becoming wild again" is just fire. Huge props from Italy, I hope Breizh and the other Celtic countries can make a linguistical revival
We need more Breton songs !! Loved this one, from Britanny
Regarde liberta de etienne yvon
Tri Yann music
i'm so saddened by the mistreatment of minority languages on our continent, all these celtic languages supressed for centuries, from irish to cornish and breton, and many others like slavic, basque and finnic. i have a new found appreciation for celtic tongues as a romance speaker, they sound truly surreal.
Celtic languages are actually the closest non-Romance languages to the Romance languages. The old Celtic languages were close cousins of Latin.
You are not the first, the reason Tolken made a lot of his languages based on Welsh was just an enjoyment of the sound. Sad we might see the day there are more people who can speak those than Welsh
@@servantofaeie1569 what a evil cousin
don't blame futur generations for the past from peoples that are dead thousands of years before me, me too i'm saddened that this language isn't spokenand peopels was oppressed for talking that language but i don't even have French encestors either, my mom is Italian and my dad Turkish but left Turkey when he was like 3 to live in Réunion and my mom left Italy when she was 3 too to live in France.
i live in ireland and down the road from where i live there is a old breton lad with a breton flag outside his window he owns a small cottage and a farm
II was born in Nantes.....
my parents have irish origins
i want to watch my land.....
During 17 18 the centuries lot of irish are came in brittany due to starving.
But finally we are the same . I m.breton.and dna test say i m 97% irish welsh .
“For the linguistic unity of France, the Breton language must disappear.” -Anatole de Monzie, Minister of Public Education, 1925
That was perhaps one of the darkest quotes I’ve ever read. Killing off and shaming a huge part of a culture like a language all for the sake of some “unity”? Disgusting. Any government that’s done something like that should be ashamed.
Encore et toujours des socialistes ! et aujourd hui il sont pret a vendre leur cul et celui de la France pour etre élu
The French have said that about every minority language and culture in France.
Agreed 👍 im from the United States and what you just said basically sums up our whole history. All cultures deserve to thrive free in coexistence from persecution
@Fihlippe Luhis French is one of the prettiest languages i think
"There is no place for minority languages in France." - Georges Pompidou, President Of France, 1972
I think this is one of the best separatist songs ever made.
ikr
Yes but their cause as far as separatism is concerned is illegitimate.
Making their language survive is another matter and it can be done with will and a bit of money.
Separatism in the joy ! What could be better. 😅
More of a protest song tbh
@@wertyuiopasd6281Which money? All the money I give for taxes go to your Arab and African suburbs.
France is a cancer.
Finally, something that isn't Einheitsfrontlied
*For now*
He should finish the east and stop this einheitsfrontlied madness-maybe
Und dass heiss- ERIKA
How dare you?
Thats OUR song, western spy.......
respect to the Breton language and the people of Brittany from the US.
chase. yes
A napoleonic american supporting Britanny haha
I would have seen everything in my life. We would need a breton Napoléon to win...
Thank you by the way. Vive US and Britanny !
based profile picture, from a Frenchman, whose dad is Breton and mum from Japan
How did you know about Brittany?
@@Ettibridget because not every American doesn’t know history and/or geography
I'm an American, but it truly brings a tear to my eye to see so many westerners re-embrace their cultural heritage
My dad died in July of this year, he was a Breton, and spoke Breton, R.I.P dad :,(
Siento tu pérdida (I'm sorry for your loss).
c'est si triste.... désolé pour toi du coup :/
Pero que hace aquí general ._.
@@karpakut2272 Cuando le respondí no se llamaba así lol
Pinochet also has origins from the French Basque Country
Brings chills down my spine!
God bless Bretagne from Sweden
Chills
video played through auto play in the other room - took me a while to realize I wasn’t being called
i laughed when i saw this
Long live the Celtic languages
Rónán Mac Loingsigh yes
Breizh da viken, Alba gu bráth, Cymru am byth, Kernow bys vyken, Éirinn go brách
Platypus for scottish gaelic the grave accent (à like this)
tho conservatives use both à and á
The Virgin France vs The CHAS Britanny
@Nathanael Marco Hartanto Yes, but it's a joke with the virgin vs chad meme.
Non en faite
Nathanael Marco Hartanto in Celtic culture dogs are/were seen as brave and loyal animals, and being called a dog is far from an insult for them.
@@ufhb6649 there are two words to way dog in breton: "c'has", more derigative if a look to the way they use it, and the normal word for the animal "ki" for exemple the black dog like those of the english and celtic folklore are called in the litteral sense "Ki-du" .
I hope it did answered tour question:)
Edit: pardon me I haven't read your com properly, i retract what i said!
Krell 1437 Thanks I did not know that, I don’t speak breton (yet)
Even if the language is recorded in books or you have audio records, the language is not going to survive if you keep this passivity to it. French people, it doesn't mind if you aren't from Britanny, don't let a part of your culture die or it will be very late.
@Adrien Lasbleiz Your comment gives hope :) I know and not because you speak a regional language means that you are nationalist or independentist, that's absurd.
@Adrien Lasbleiz Ok, I respect your opinion.
@Adrien Lasbleiz 1) Doesn't like immigrants
2) Is an immigrant himself
3) Calls himself an expat
So many levels of hypocrisy.
@Adrien Lasbleiz Did you ever live in France? Did you ever live in Paris? Because as a proud lorrain living in Paris, I can assure you that nobody is the whore of someone here. Everybody would be interested in talking about your culture, it doesn't matter whether you're from Tahiti or Toulouse, Brest or Ajaccio, Strasbourg or Fort-de-France. You're equally as interesting and you're as worthy as any other French citizen, equality is in our motto. We all have the same ID, we all have the same rights.
French people are reluctant to talk about independence thought but independentists in France are often just nationalist that repeat independence without knowing what it implies and with no clear path to achieve it.
But of course, you can continue to play the victim you poor exploited thing! You don't even bother to live in your own country as a true patriot to try to improve it, wether you consider your country to be Brittany or France. Emigrants, when it's not for work purpose should not complain about what's happening in the country they choose to left.
Sidenote : An independent Brittany would most likely not be a monarchy, with modern time politics. It would most likely do quite the same as the region is doing right know, with roughly the same budget and laws modeled on French laws. The only true difference would be one more border on maps.
@Adrien Lasbleiz Ho kozh soñjoù n'o deus ket o flas e-barzh hor bro, e Pariz e c'hellit chom neuze.
Ironic that I'm watching this while supposed to be doing French homework
Sounds like a Celtic language combined with Old French
At least in old French there is some similar words with French. But here, I recognize no words at all. Even the word "French" is unrecognizable at 1:30 (I suppose its French is "Bro-C'hall").
@Alan Chougny Thanks for the info. I was close.
So yeah, I don't understand why people says its like old French. I don't saw any French influence at all on this music.
That's what it is...
That's basically what it is, the Kingdom of Bitanny was founded by celts from the British Isles who settled in what is now britanny and eventually they were annexed into France.
That's literally what it is
I wish from the bottom of my heart that one day, the seven nations may have their freedom, that they would have stable and functional countries, and that the cultures of these nations may be revived and live on forever.
Best wishes, Brittany.
Literally every music festival in France as at least one Guy with a breton flag
Another breton issued song is the " blanche hermine", pretty cool song
*litteraly everything. Once a bicycle race was passing by our home and my dad got out in the rain just to wave the flag.
Yeah, our flags are everywhere lmao
I remember once seeing the breton flag at the 2008 olympics in China lol
And i am a quart of Irish and i have respect for all the celtic countrys 🥰🏴🏴🇮🇪🏴🏳🏁🏴🇮🇲
The Celtic languages are so beautiful, imagine the alternate timeline where the Celtic peoples still dominated much of Europe and Latins stayed in Italy and Germanics in Northern Germany and Scandanavia. Would be one hell of a different world
Well, technically the Italics and the Celts were the same if we consider the linguistic studies.
@@augustobarbosab.773 I mean they share common root definitely and are closest to each other.
There is controversy whether Celtic is false division - and ItaloCeltic branch should instead divide into Goedelic and rest, and only then Italic and continental and Brittish Celtic.
Definitely Goedelic and Brittonic Celtic languages are separate for vast amount of time
Damn, this sounds like from some high fantasy game/anime. Celts are magicians, I swear.
Bretons in the Elder Scrolls are Mages or something.
@@pogmonke5217 Descendents from (correct me if wrong) High Elves and Imperials
Alduin the Lord of Dragons some sources say Atmorans and aldmeri, others say nords and alyied. Idk exactly what races though, but probablythe atmorans and alyied since they are closest related to the nords and aldmeri.
@@erenyeager3829 Ayleids and Nedes. Some have some Nord in them.
It's amazing how you people always find a way to reduce an entire people's national identity to 'something from a Japanese cartoon'. Could you possibly be any more insulting?
A rousing song sung in a beautiful language. Bretons, I wish for power to you within your Nation, a Nation seperate from that of the French. Please always preserve your Celtic heritage, language and music, never let any of it fade away.
Respect to Brittany from Wales. Llydaw, Cymru a Chernyw am byth! Breizh, Kembre ha Kerneveur atav!
Thank you Ingen, from a Breton
My heart and soul is praying for you Bretons ,I understand your pain
God bless you
The "Chas" part is kinda creepy
I mean the entire song is.
I agree with you
Can i ask what is the meaning of Chas?
Angelino Bernal in Breton, it means dog. Elsewhere, it’s just a nickname
WDYM? This sounds like some TV show from the 70's making up a song to mock the French.
@@EiriktheNordAndersen-ju4gl
I Guess?
Im Lebanese and so far from your beautiful lands..but this song touched my heart and soul in ways beyond my understanding..too many tears shed to this proud melody..may i live to see your dreams come true..and i witness the unification and prosperity of a united Celtic Nation..i write this as my country is almost forever gone..solidarity with all freedom-seeking brethren worldwide 🤍🙏🏽
Elves: We are angry. Angry about the French.
Pelinal Whitestrake was an Anglo
@Sakkra123 Based and Alessiapilled
Greetings celtic brothers from wales 🏴 your ancestors came from wales , well cornwall but the cornish people were once apart of wales we split from them at the severn bridge after the saxons pushed us britons (welsh,cornish) west we settled in mordern wales and the other Britons settled in Cornwall and the cornish identity was born , some of them left for brittany and settled there to escape the saxon invasion
@Fan d'Oggy et les cafards Breton is a form of brythonic language it come from the britons (welsh) Cornish is similar because Cornwall and Devon was once known as west wales in 577 ad the Battle of Deorham happened down near mordern day Bristol it resulted in the separation of the Cornish (known as the West Welsh) from the Welsh by the advance of the Saxons. Some of these cornish (west welsh) people fled to brittanny on boats and settled in france thats why I can understand some of the words in this song lot of words similar to welsh
Totally true. I have done a online dna test by 23andme. 98% irish british dna 2% iberian. 0% french german. 0% english.
@@bretagnejean2410 Wow, that's amazing!
Huh?? You’re right? That’s a surprise.
Not to sound rude or ignorant, but I have heard many Celtic/Gaelic languages, and this is so far the most hauntingly beautiful one yet.
Different time periods from when they split off from each other Celtic has many different branches and splits in it look up Welsh
Ironically I'd say I think there is French/Romance influence here that smooths it compared to Island varieties.
@@szymonlechdzieciol I can see that, but I think it is more in the affect of the performer than the language itself.
This language needs to be conserved... its sad what the French government is doing to the Brittonic language. However I support Brittany being apart of France the Culture, Language and History should be preserved.
It's very sad that the only way to preserve regional languages in France is being independent or autonomous, officializing minorised languages seems like a very crazy idea for the people and politicians of your country 😔. If someday breton language goes official it would be a dream came true.
@@pyrenaea3019 Yes indeed it is sadly... its because of the Modern Politics in the EU and France's more Radical Left Political views that cause this stuff. At least thats how I see it
@@Benjamin-085 In my country accepting the language and the identity of the minorities is usually seen as a leftist thing but anyway I understand your point
@@pyrenaea3019 everybody can learn anything nowadays, no one is prevented from learning anything in France, so my opinion is if this language does not survive, it will be the fault of the Bretons themselves.
@@Sir77Hill Imagine that you speak a minorised language, all the governments of the country where you live try everything to extinct it, is considered illiterate and the teachers hit you if you speak or write it being forbidden at schools for years.
The grandmother of my cousins was hit constantly because of speaking basque and she doesn't want to speak it now because she remembers those times, (there it goes an example).
So yes, if the language does not survive is fault of the Bretons themselves.
“The French Revolution and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” - Some Breton nationalist, probably
The French Society and its Future
by anonymous author
Introduction
1. The French Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the Breton race. They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in advanced counties, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering, in the third world to physical suffering as well, and have inflicted severe damage to the natural world.
The continued development of technology will worsen the situation, it will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world. It will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering, even in advanced countries.
The french revolution was a bourgeois revolution. The next step naturally is communism
@Zachary Durocher poor people being equal, gross
@@KohanKilletz The french revolution was a liberal/nationalist revolution.
@@1821-y6n same thing
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard
I physically cannot watch this and not cry
Lyrics by Yann-Ber Piriou, music by Alan Stivell. Original album : Trema'n Inis" (towards the island), 1976.
Performed here by the "Ensemble Vocal du Bout du Monde" on the album Buhez (Life) in 2000.
Is there a chance to get this album now?
The desire for freedom and self determination shown by the Basques, Catalans, Bretons, Kurds, and Irish is incredibly powerful and moving. This song in my opinion is the ultimate incarnation not just of the Bretons', but of all these people's righteous struggles for independence.
Do not confuse thing. Kurds try to gain their freedom against the nazi turks withs guns. The catalans have the illusion that they will be free via democracy.
don't compare people whose languages are actually being oppressed with catalans and basques. They are both official languages of Spain, catalan and basque independentist parties are at the "Congreso de los Diputados" and still they claim to be oppressed
@@diprogamer3294 The willingness for indepedence is broader thing in compare with the officiallity of a language
@@diprogamer3294 being occupied by a foreign state is a form of oppression. it isn't nearly as intolerable as what the Kurds go through, but it is still oppression nonetheless. they all deserve their own nation.
@@the-letter_s presence in the parliament and priviliges is not a form of occupation
I am Romanian, I do not understand the slightest hint of the language, but for me, it sounds like the prettiest thing ever! Keep the language alive!
How easy is it for a native Romanian to learn French? I am just curious, if only for Georges Enescu.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 as they are both Latin languages, Romanian being around 70% Latin based and French being around 60% Latin, they have a start there. But Romanian has many words taken from French, as an example:"Mersi" as "Thank you" from "merci".
Free Siebenbürgen Germans from Romania!
@@liqiz1755 go back to iraq ahmed
Jesus christ this is beautiful. I can feel the breton's pain through the music.
This is so beautiful it hurts, Breizh da viken! Much love from Brazil.
Brittany is made up of 4 Celtic ethnic groups.
the Celts of ancient Armorica, the Welsh and the Cornish, immigrants to Brittany who together created the Kingdom of Brittany
and the Irish who immigrated in considerable numbers to Brittany
et surtout aussi les Gallais de Haute-Bretagne qui ont toujours habité près de toute la moitié Est du pays (du côté de Châteaubriant ou Derval, vieilles baronnies bretonnes, on n'a jamais parlé une langue celte là-bas mais le gallais).
They arrived in the VIth-VIIth century as guests and mixed with the local gauls (french).
Britanny has never reached more than 50% of bretons speakers in Britanny at any given time in history.
They're as legitimate for the land as any other gaullish, French people.
However, it would be good if the gov or bretons/French themselves would do more for the language.
@Pierre-Antoine Phélippeau Si on n'a jamais parlé une langue celte en Haute-Bretagne, comment ça se fait qu'on retrouve les villes de Cancale, Dinan, Dinard, Le Pouliguen, Paimbœuf ou encore Guémené-Penfao ?
Bretons, i tell you, you kick ass! Your music and culture is wonderful, protect your heritage from Franco-ignorant state hands. Greetings from Poland.
@@Astra0113 Ok, and what about short Corsican guy that had believed in grater France, end up making war around whole Europe.
Usually, Bretons are very proud to be Bretons, but also French. They love both and when you insult French people, you also insult them.
If you insult French then you insult bretons too though xP.
My ancestors are Breton and though very proud of my origins I'm first and foremost French 🇨🇵
what about occitan ?
Much love from your forgotten celtic brothers in Galicia
merci , j adore vigo avant !
Vive la Bretagne !
Le Mont Saint-Michel est normand
Ils ont des chapeaux rond, VIVE LA BRETAGNE ! Ils ont des chapeaux rond, VIVE LES BRETONS !
Breizh Atao !
@@Lord-Pierre Le mont Saint Michel est Chrétien. Et il existe 7 Mont en Europe formant l'épée de Saint Michel.
@@glacefeale9212 Et il faut les réunir pour assembler l'épée qu'après on doit utiliser pour vaincre les terribles forces du mal musulmanes c'est çà ?
I hope the Breton languge never dies
The first time I heard this language was 30 years ago. The local radio would play a music band named Dao Dezi, whose language was magical to my ears. There was no internet back then, and we had hardly any resources. I spent my childhood wondering what language it was. I learned many years later that it was Breton, and the name of the song was Ti Eliz Iza. What a beautiful language.
This music is heavenly, it really brings me to some other reality and state of mind.
Celts are the forgotten ancestors of history. Everyone is with vikings, but I always got fascinated by celtic cultures, they existed from United Kingdom to Turkey! And no movies or series explain who they were.
I love your language and your culture! I hope and wish that you preserve it as the treasure it is.
I salute you from Barcelona!
Celts know their own origin, but for political reasons, against their will the information has been kept from others.
I`m Welsh I know exactly how you feel, being crapped on by a foreign country
But the big difference is that England recognizes Wales as a nation.
Whereas Brittany is just recognised as a mere state within France, but it’s boundaries do not include the historical capital Nantes/Naoned, the southern part of this map in the video
That's not the same thing at all.
Bretagne is part of France, we share a close and common, old history and people from all over France build and developed our country France.
Welsh on the other hand can leave England and it won't be a huge problem.
My father’s father from the Highlands of Scotland.
My mother’s people going back forever from the rocky coasts of Breizh.
In our hearts we know who we are and will always be.
Ah! The land of bagpipes and Scotch!
I Really Believed that it will be Einheitsfrontlied in Breton jajajaja I was like "Seriously?"
"Chas!"
@Nathanael Marco Hartanto Me Too!! Jajajaja
Its funny because me and lot of my friends have discovered this song at the same time (We are breton) and we will fight for our culture and langage ! Breton langage will never be forget with us and we will teach him to the childrens !
Bravo à vous ! Je suis français moi même et non Breton (mes origines familiales sont d'Auvergne), mais je crois fondamentale que les européens de France doivent se réapproprient leurs cultures ancestrales ! Bonne continuation à vous !
@@PytheasFidus merci pour vos encouragement !
respect from the Netherlands ! Our Dutch language is getting more and more lost... with nobody paying attention to it !
I will keep on fighting and will continue placing texts in Dutch in public discussions - without mistakes however with pride !
@@chrisknape3188 great good luck for you !
@@chrisknape3188 it's the national Language with 23 million speakers calm down
I wish, no I sure, that Breton in soon future become independent state, and this historical moment!!! Long live Breton!
I'm French, but I have ~25% Breton blood. I'm proud that Bretons make so beautiful songs like this.
I'm ashamed too of the French governements that tried to assimilate Bretons to French (from the 1870s).
Heureusement, la langue est toujours parlée
@@TNOfan4093 oui
Bretons were French.
But 30% of the population didn't know how to speak French.
About half the population didn't know bretons.
So they were a bit forced like tons of other regions to learn parisian French in the IIIrd Republic to win WW1.
Faut arrêter d'avoir honte pour rien.
Est-ce que t'as honte de l'islamisation aussi ?
This song actually has an author : Alan Stivell, a very well-known Brezhoneg activist. He do need credits
Support and solidarity to the Bretons from Germany. Dont give up the struggle!
Vergesse nicht Palästina und Kurdistan. Und unsere Sorben, Niederdeutschen und Friesen.
I'm Breton, thanks fella
Home Rule and full ethnic rights for language and culture for Brittany!
Ethnic rights? For centuries bretons were mix with other french. I can't tell the difference today between a breton and burgundian. There is a breton culture, breton people but there is no such thing as a "breton ethnicity".
@@FoxTrotteur ethnicity literally means belonging to a culture and identifying as such.
@@shahriarghasemianbamy1156 I don't think it does... you can't 'identify' as an ethnicity.
@@FoxTrotteur i m breton, i do a dna test in 23andme 98% british irish. 0% french german. 2% italian or iberian. They are not sure. I m more british that majority of people living in great britain. So if breton are not an ethnicity then english are french.
@@bretagnejean2410 Fax, it says “Irish” but it probably is picking up pure briton genes. And most English are German-Briton mix (Saxons) if i’m correct, I believe the French are as well (Frankish/German Gallic mix)
Respect from the Basque country
This is probably the closest we will ever get to IRL elven songs
Je suis parisien et je suis pour la décentralisation de la France. Vive la Bretagne !
"Της αμύνης τα παιδιά" would be a good song. Its a song about Eleftherios Venizelos.(Greek prime minister)
It is the first language that my ears heard and left a lasting impression..... Grandma only spoke Breton. Ashamed not to be able to enjoy and pass it on.
It is not too late to learn it my friend. :)
This is an absolutely beautiful song and the lyrics resonate with me, I'd love for there to one day be a celtic union! Cymru Am Byth, Yma O Hyd!
Yes. Brittany economy have collapsed since france take it. Before our economy was turn to channel and uk irish. Now its turn to feed france and paris . Slave region.
@@chrisbreizh29 triste , c est vrai !
Chwaer ieithoedd yw'r Lladaweg a'r Gymraeg
Welsh not!
when you can't speak breton but you've learned this song off by heart
The survival of the Celtic languages is vital, imagine the history only told through these languages! If we let them die out it would be unfortunate and sealing away secrets never to be told.
Respect to the bretons and their language du québec ❤
NAONED IS BRETON
Everything in this song is lol
This sounds like a choir singing in the town square in the 4th century, and I love it
Funny since there weren't bretons in Brittany yet in the 4th century
Quelle belle langue
Ouais mais elle est presque disparue ;-(
@@ernest9013 presque ne faut pas toute de même abuser. On peu encore l'apprendre et maintenant avec la nouvelle technologie et l'écriture on peu garder le langage. Il y a certes bien sur beaucoup moins de gens qui la parle je l'admets
Ernest Gayno rien n’est perdu, le pays de galles a réussi à sauver sa langue, la Bretagne le peut aussi.
@@ufhb6649 Largement, les bretons peuvent encore sauver leur langues. Avec des associations etc...( je sais pas du tout si ça existe déjà).
J'espère que ça va faire comme l'hébreu et revenir
I'm Cornish, hopefully one day us Cornish and Bretons will be free again ❤️🟰🟰❤️
@@Assmanlicker 🤣 you're either seriously uneducated or trolling, firstly in 2014 the Cornish were granted National minority status, giving us the same national recognition as the Scottish, Welsh and Irish. Also we were a nation long before "England" became a thing.
Secondly, do we not have a language? Before you comment and make stupid statements go learn more about the subject you're commenting on.
Meur ras, Kernow bys vyken 😉
@@Assmanlicker due to mass slaughter of people that spoke the language (by the English) it was on the brink of extinction - and it's undergoing a major revival, also we're recognised by England and the UK as a national minority so even though you may not think we're "special" we aren't English and that is recognised by law, so as much as you want to call me English it won't work 🤣😉
@@Assmanlicker My grandma spoke cornish
@@Assmanlicker Run dog run the Russian hussar rides for your village to burn it down.
@@Assmanlicker As a brythonic tongue, what is the Breton language if not some evolved Cornish ?
number in Cornish
1 - onan
2 - dew
3 - tri
4 - peswar
5 - pymp
6 - hwegh
7 - seyth
8 - eth
9 - naw
10 - deg
Breton
1 - unan
2 - daou
3 - tri
4 - pevar
5 - pemp
6 - c’hwec’h
7 - seizh
8 - eizh
9 - nav
10 - dek
Breizh da viken
Kernow Bys Vyken
Finally something new on Ingen's channel and it's so cool song!
FREE BRITTANY
What an incredibly beautiful language!
Omg this language sounds absolutely amazing
Spanish people: we only have the ñ!
Breton people : *_b r u h_*
What is the sound of the letter ñ in Breton?
@@unknown_mccclxxxv nʲa
@@mr.nanolando7892 Are you breton? Can you speak this language?
@@unknown_mccclxxxv nope
@@unknown_mccclxxxv I'm actually Spanish xd
Everybody gangsta until the domesticated dogs become wild again
je suis un quart breton et je suis fier d'avoir cette origine j'aime la culture Bretonne, ses paysages, sa gastronomie, sa langue, les personnes qui y vivent,son riche patrimoine culturel, puis son histoire.
Bevet Breizh !
Can't get enough of this song
I’m a breton descendant in the United States. My surname is associated with this area back to Nominoe, Alan I and more than likely on the tapestry. I don’t know the language or much more than that but understand this song. 🙏
A large contingent of Breton immigrants to the US came from the town of Gourin in Morbihan
Sounds more ancient than ancient. Never heard of anything like this before.
This song is so deep, seems to be coming back from early ages and makes me proud to be breton and part of the Celtic people
I wanna learn Breton so bad 😭😩 such a beatiful language
Same, it's such a hidden gem of a language
Respect from Occitania, France doesn't want us to speak our language, but why should we listen to the parisians ?
So you don't end up being bunch of small states in the span of next 50 years instead of one big and prosperous one
@@Losowywe'd rather be a bunch of small states than being part of one big state which tries to get rid of our culture, traditions, and language
@@mariobot128 yea i also think balkans are very peaceful and there has never been any war after the fall of yugoslavia
@@Losowynearly all wars in the balkans were caused by people not having their own country (a. k. a. nationalism) my man, do you not know your history ?
@@mariobot128 look at the border clusterfu*k like kosovo and bosnia with their internal Serbian republic
You know why these problems exist? Cuz these nations were part of different country for most of their history and no clear borders exist
Just imagine how many wars bout these contested areas you would have sooner or later
And the nationalism won't exist if you don't let it spread
That's why they don't teach you languages that are completely useless aside of traditionalism
Why learn another language to communicate with locals, another to communicate everyone else living in france and possibly third to be able to communicate with anyone outside of france? Just for the sake of traditionalism? It's 21st century
If you want to learn something you can just try it yourself
If kids don't want to learn it now by themselves why do you think they would want it in schools?
This is probably the coolest song i ever heard