Hi everyone,

For an engagement ring I would very much like to have the phrase "I love you, forever" engraved. My partners late father was from Brittany, and she takes great pride in this ancestry and I think this engraving would be a nice gesture. I unfortunately don't know any Breton myself, and the various websites available all give different answers, which makes me unsure of which translation to pick, and as you can imagine, I would like it to be correct for this occasion! I therefore thought it could be a good idea to ask the people of this forum for help with translating.

What I (think) have so far is the "I love you" part: "C'hwant m'eus diouzhit". I read on another forum that this (I want you) would be a more culturally correct way of saying "I love you". I would love to have some input on that, as well as to add the "... forever" to it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Salud deoc'h!

J'ai récemment eu besoin de quelques phrase en breton pour un projet perso et après m'être un peu penché sur la langue bretonne, j'ai tenté quelques traductions par moi-même mais je me dis que demander l'avis de personnes parlant la langue pourrait vraiment aider

Du coup, voila les quelques phrases:

• Cette carte n'est pas officielle/n'est pas à l'échelle: n'eo ket ar gartenn-mañ ofisiel ha n'eo ket diouzh ar skeul (est-ce qu'utiliser war à la place de diouzh aurait du sens ici?)
• Cette carte est à l'échelle: Ar gartenn-mañ zo/emañ diouzh ar skeul
• Entre xxx et xxx, les noms de ville sont écrits/donnés en breton et en gallo : Etre xxx ha xxx merket eo anvioù ar c'herioù e brezhoneg hag e gallaoueg

Qu'en pensez-vous? Peut mieux faire?

There is a French saying that goes: 'Il vaut mieux être saoul que con, ça dure moins longtemps' which roughly translates to 'One can better be drunk than stupid, that lasts less long'. I've heard that this is actually a Breton saying, but I can't find its Breton version. Could someone help me by translating or finding it for me?

Help is much appreciated!

I have to translate a French song into English for a project, but the one I picked has 4 lines in Breton and I can't find any translators online that know what to do with it. Could anyone on here help? I would appreciate it greatly.

The song is a sea shanty called La Complainte de Louis-Marie Jossic, the French is pretty simple so I assume the Breton is too. Below are the 4 lines, then the full lyrics for context. Thanks very much.

N'oun pe drouk enni zo skoet
Pa'm eus taolet troad amañ
Ma daeroù takenn a takenn
À gouezh goustadik er mor

Comme un goéland seul dans la tempête
Mon cœur va contre le vent
N'oun pe drouk enni zo skoet
Pa'm eus taolet troad amañ
Le savais-tu, pauvre Louis-Marie
En t'engageant pour cinq ans?
C'est pour noyer malheur et soucis
Qu'un marin chante son chant

Jeune apprenti, à hisser la misaine
Je n'ai que peine et peine encore
Ma daeroù takenn a takenn
À gouezh goustadik er mor
À Brest, à bord de La Bretagne
Qu'on dit être un bagne flottant
Il n'est que coups, maladie et drame
Et mépris du commandant

Dites à mes sœurs, dites à mes deux frères
Toujours mon cœur reste à Lavau
Ne dites rien à mon père, à ma mère
Sur le sort des matelots

Are native speakers still being born? I'm talking truly native as in having Breton being passed out continually. If not, are any measures being put to work to have natives teach their children Breton? Is it working?

Hi, everyone! I'm making a map of how to ask "what time is it?" in European languages with literal translations and I was wondering if you could help me with Breton here because I want it to be on the map too.

Cheers :)

I'm a Armenian guy from Russia, and I have a little project. Project has a very stupid name ( I still can't come up with a name for it), but the point is: Migration Period, of 4-7 centuries never happened, and we got a very conservative cultural and language world. Celts still owned Gaul, most of British Isles, north of Iberia and so on. And all this will be a mod for Hoi4. Sound weird, but this, why I came here. For this project, I need to translate many things into old, extincted languages, like Old English, Gaulish and others. But, Old Breton is not so popular, ( however, as well as modern Breton) so I need help, to translate, even to modern Breton a couple of phrases. And if someone interested in my project, I'm always glad for new friends :) So... If you know history of your nation, your language, or just interested in my project – welcome My discord

Demat! My friend is a breton, I want to impress him can you help me 😃!

Hello, I made a discord server for all celtic people, which if you dont know the main ones are, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Brittany (North west France) to name a few. This server will just be a bug community were you can talk about history, politics and more! (History and politics in there own chats please.) https://discord.gg/dmhS6ZYstV

If you're not Celtic you can also join just tell the admin you're not Celtic.

I am an ethnic breton living in the United Kingdom, I speak english, Spanish and French and am currently learning breton, could someone give me advice in learning breton, it isn't like anything I have learned before so any bit of help you can give with that would be nice, I also plan on starting a YouTube channel once I get really good with the language doing vlogs only in breton to try and promote use if the language and spread it around so if that would factor you nto anything then please say

Aside from knowing that Bretons are Celtic ethnic group and one of the last surviving strongholds of the Celtic identity, I don’t know much about Brittany or it’s people.

I’m aware that many Celtic Britons fled Britannia after the Anglo-Saxon invasions and built new roots in Brittany. Another thing I’ve heard (not sure if this is true or not), is that one big reason for that was due to the large Gallic presence there that had not been romanized, and was thus a great place for other Celts to move to (since the Gauls were already there, strong in numbers)

I have a few questions.

1. If you are a Breton, so you see Britons, Gauls, both, or neither as your ancestors?
2. To what extent is the awareness of Celtic ancestry present in Breton culture?
3. Did Britons or Gauls have more influence on what Brittany became? This is open ended. I’m curious about linguistics, ancestry, identity, culture etc.

Just a curious foreigner here who loves learning about the world’s cultures, especially those who are less well-known.

I can't find any easy resource that provides translation from English to Breton.

Hello! I am a native Turkish speaker from Turkey who is very passionate about learning Breton language. Or at least the basics. I know there aren't a lot of people speaking it and I find it saddening. I also want to be able to understand the amazing songs written in this language that I listen to. I'm not sure if anyone will be interested but I can teach Turkish in exchange? 😅

Hi Everyone,

I recently made a video on YouTube about the Breton language that I'd like to share with you! It is about a new orthographic reform that I came up with for Breton, with a focus on making it look more "Celtic". I'd love it if you guys could take a look and give me some feedback.

The video is here: https://youtu.be/iFVagoE-zEY (or search the post name on YT).

Thanks!