Peurunvan orthography

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Peurunvan orthography is a standardized modern writing system for the Breton language designed to unify its various dialectal spellings.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Breton orthography
orthography
writing system
alsoKnownAs peurunvan
appliesTo Breton
surface form: Breton language
comparedWith ETREBROADEL orthography
KLT orthography
Skolveurieg orthography
country France
etymology Breton word "peurunvan" meaning "fully unified" or "completely unified"
feature compromise between Breton dialects
distinguishes broad and slender consonants mainly by following vowels
largely phonemic spelling
marks nasalization with ñ
uses zh to represent a compromise sound between /z/ and /h/ in dialects
language Breton
purpose standardize modern written Breton
unify Breton dialectal spellings
region Brittany
script Latin script
standardizationTarget Gwened dialect
Kernev dialect
Leon dialect
Treger dialect
status major standard for written Breton
timePeriod 20th century
usedBy Breton language activists
many contemporary Breton writers
usedIn Breton-language education
Breton-language publishing
usesAlphabet Breton alphabet
usesDiacritics â
ê
î
ñ
ô
û
usesDigraph ch
c’h
zh

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Breton hasOrthographyReform Peurunvan orthography