13 Facts About Breton people

Seventy-five percent of the estimated 200,000 to 250,000 Breton people speakers using Breton people as an everyday language today are over the age of 65.

Many Breton people families have emigrated to the Americas, predominantly to Canada and the United States.

The only places outside Brittany that still retain significant Breton people customs are in Ile-de-France, Le Havre and in Iles des Saintes, where a group of Breton people families settled in the mid-17th century.

Breton people's manorial holding at Richmond ensured a Breton presence in northern England.

Many people throughout France claim Breton ethnicity, including a few French celebrities such as Marion Cotillard, Suliane Brahim, Malik Zidi, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Yoann Gourcuff, Nolwenn Leroy and Yann Tiersen.

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Breton people are predominantly members of the Catholic Church, with minorities in the Reformed Church of France and non-religious people.

Breton people language is a very important part of Breton people identity.

Breton people itself is one of the Brittonic languages and is closely related to Cornish and more distantly to Welsh.

From 1880 to the mid-20th century, Breton people was banned from the French school system and children were punished for speaking it in a similar way to which English, not Welsh, was used in Welsh schools during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Newspapers, magazines and online journals available in Breton people include Al Lanv, based in Quimper, Al Liamm, Louarnig-Rouzig, and Breman.

Television programmes in Breton people are available on France 3 Breizh, France 3 Iroise, TV Breizh and TV Rennes.

Two main types of Breton people music are a choral a cappella tradition called kan ha diskan, and music involving instruments, including purely instrumental music.

Breton people cuisine contains many elements from the wider French culinary tradition.