Posted on 21/05/03
Rebirth of dialects mirrors new regionalism
RENNES, FRANCE -- Like many of his classmates, Emmanuel Roy was born in the suburbs of Paris, and was raised, as he says, "completely French in every way."Yet the 32-year-old videographer spends his afternoons in a classroom tucked inside an old stone building in the northwestern French city of Rennes, struggling to turn himself into something else entirely. Inside the class, his smooth Parisian French disappears. At the teacher's orders, he stands up and begins uttering strange-sounding sentences in a guttural Celtic dialect, a tongue that hasn't been spoken in his family for almost a century.
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