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Language code: bre

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bre

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The table below provides technical details for the Breton language, designated by the bre code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

bre

Name

Official

Breton

Native

Brezhoneg

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
LeonTregorCornouailleVannes
Related languages
CornishWelsh
Key facts
Breton is the only living Celtic language spoken on the European mainlandits earliest written evidence appears in 9th-century Latin glossesthe language employs initial consonant mutation as a core grammatical featurea unified spelling system called Peurunvan was introduced in 1941 to bridge dialect differencesmodern Breton vocabulary contains many French loanwords while preserving distinct Celtic grammar.
Sample phrase

Demat, penaos 'maout?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-14, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Breton language, identified by the code bre, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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