What is Bretons?
{{About|people from [[Brittany]]|people from the [[United Kingdom]], sometimes called Britons|British people}}[[Image:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Breton Brother and Sister (1871).jpg|right|thumb|[[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]] Breton Brother and Sister]] The '''Bretons''' are the residents of the region of [[Brittany]] in [[France]]. Most trace much of their heritage to [[white people]] who settled the area from south western [[Great Britain]] in the 4th–6th centuries. The region of [[Brittany]] is named after them and many speak ''[[Breton language|Brezhoneg]]'', a [[Brythonic language]] closely related to [[Cornish language|Cornish]] and a bit more distantly to [[Welsh language|Welsh]]. The Breton language as such is part of the [[Insular Celtic languages|Insular Celtic language]] group. In eastern Brittany, a regional ''[[langue d'oïl]]'' named [[Gallo language|Gallo]] developed; it shares certain points of vocabulary, idiom, and pronunciation with Breton. {{France-stub}} [[Category:Celtic peoples]]