Ofis ar Brezhoneg

The Office of the Breton Language (Breton: "Ofis ar Brezhoneg"; French: "Office de la langue bretonne") was created on 1 May 1999 by the Region of Bretagne (France) for the promotion and development of the Breton language.

Mission

One of its missions is to scientifically deal with socio-linguistic data. It must therefore act as an observatory of the Breton language (Arsellva ar brezhoneg) by publishing these data, and it must advise communes for bilingual signalisation and place names. It is the support of TermBret, the cooperative terminology service which publishes glossaries as speciality. Finally, it assists individuals, administrations and businesses who want to use the Breton language (42 administrations, associations or companies have made an appeal from 1 July 1999 to September 15, 1999).

Breton language

The Office participates to the promotion of Breton courses for adults. For the year 1998-1999, it has published an approach of the effectives of Breton courses for adults: 9.300 adults have followed a course (e.g. evening courses, correspondence, ...). 6.700 have followed courses, of which 1.200 in Haute-Bretagne (550 in Ille-et-Vilaine and 462 in Loire-Atlantique). 165 organisms organise evening courses in Bretagne and 28 outside Bretagne (of which 15 in the region of Paris).

In 2003, the Office published a road map of Britanny in the Breton language (The map includes Loire-Atlantique [Loire-Atlantique was part of the Bretagne Region until 1941. The Bretons wants Loire-Atlantique to be reattached to Bretagne (see e.g. [http://www.cuab.org/ this site] ).] ).

Finance and organisation

The Office, which is an independent association presided by Lena Louarn (treasurer is Alan ar Gall), has a budget of € 1 million, primarily funded by the Bretagne Region. The seat is in Carhaix where its director Fulup Jakez and the responsible of the agency for the developement of Breton works. The Observatory of the Breton language ("l'Observatoire de la langue bretonne") with the deputy director Olier Ar Mogn, is located in Rennes.

References

ee also

* Welsh Language Board - a comparable body for the Welsh language.
* Foras na Gaeilge - All-Ireland board for the Irish language.
* Bòrd na Gàidhlig - a comparable body for the Scots-Gaelic language.
* Coonseil ny Gaelgey - a comparable body for the Manx language.

External links

* br icon http://www.ofis-bzh.org/